Since the 1980s, the health promotion field has greatly benefited from the research conducted and shared through the University of Michigan Health Management Research Center (HMRC). Under Dr. Dee Edington’s direction, the HMRC was able to reveal such key outcomes as: the relationship of costs and health risks; the natural flow of health, the relationship [...]
Many good vendors and capable health plans have designed programs that help encourage proper decision making, provide interventions, and promote healthy lifestyles. The problem with most of them is that they don’t get enough employee participation. How can consumers become more engaged to become better and smarter participants in their own health care? On this [...]
We realize that improving the health of the U.S. population is going to require greater involvement of the communities in which we live. It’s the best way to be able to impact the entire family, children and adults, in creating a sustainable health & lifestyle change. On this week’s next show we talked with Lora [...]
In 2009, Dr. Dee Edington published, Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy. Using his decades of experience in studying organizational attempts to control healthcare costs, Dee wrote this important and one-of-a-king resource that guides the reader through the steps necessary to achieve reduction in their total cost trend. Well, what about now – [...]
Thanks to the prominent emphasis in the Affordable Care Act, workplace wellness has now become a serious initiative in many large companies. But, the expectations that these initiatives will quickly save the organizations money needs to be re-examined. Al Lewis, President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium, has appeared several times on our show to [...]
