According to a recent study by the Journal of Pain, keeping a daily record of your wellness improves your health greatly. When you track your symptoms every day, health professionals can understand your condition better and provide more effective treatment. (more…)
A recent HealthAffairs article uses a robust methodology to examine the relationship between medication adherence and total health care use and costs. HealthAffairs results indicate that medication adherence leads to lower health care use and costs despite increased drug spending.
Across all conditions, adherence reduced total annual costs significantly.
Despite the increased pharmacy costs.
January’s Circle Square HIT Trends highlights the report and calculates the return on investment (ROI) for each of these conditions as:
These findings are significant enough to support a wide range of adherence programs, including patient-centric text reminder services like RememberItNow!
A personal health record, also known as a PHR is an online system where one can record and track important information about a person’s health. Anyone can make use of the online, free PHR systems available on the internet. You can maintain your own personal health record by simply filling in the text fields in online forms. By choosing an online PHR you can access your information from anywhere in the world, provided you have internet. You can even edit this information and keep your data up to date as time progresses.
The PHR resources are extremely important for you and your health. Access to important information will help you make decisions in time in case any medical condition arises. The PHR resources do not represent any legal way to store your records but it helps you to make important health decisions in the nick of time. (more…)
For those of you that have read the recent Pew Internet and American Life Project, you might recall their discoveries in regards to mobile health. It noted, “15 percent of 18- to 29- year olds had a mobile health app on their phone, compared to 8 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds, 6 percent of 50- to 64-year-olds, and 5 percent of people 65-years-old and older.” (more…)
Category: Corporate Wellness Program
Company: Limeade
Website: https://limeade.com
Country: US
Google buzz meter: Low
Key Features: A complete well-being assessment, coaching, behavioral counseling, EAP, seminars, support, screenings, and more.
About Limeade:
Limeade technology specializes in online wellness, employee well-being, enterprise healthcare benefits, self-improvement, and employee assistance programs. Limeade is different from other wellness services because their focus is on the people. Limeade helps people pursue work, life and health goals in ways that make sense.
They help companies launch challenges that reinforce a certain strategy and culture. Sample challenges include “Motorless Landmarks” where one must track 80 motorless miles nearby through running, walking, swimming, hiking etc.
Other Limeade challenges include “Healthy Start.” Employees must get 7+ hours of sleep a night followed by a healthy breakfast to get a “healthy start” on their day. The “Pay It Forward” challenge simply focuses on doing a good deed for someone else every day. Limeade is a great choice for companies looking for a simple start on employee wellness.
RememberItNow! Wants a Few Good Benefits Leaders
Are you a benefits manager willing to implement wellness programs; but lack the budget? Are you fighting to find an ROI to get your programs approved? Does the thrill of finding innovative, effective new benefits programs get your heart racing?
If you answered YES, to these questions, your company may be a perfect candidate for RememberItNow! (more…)
Is your glass half-empty when it comes to wellness programs? Maybe you think they’re a good idea, but haven’t gone out of your way to implement one. You may think, “Wellness programs aren’t that important.”
Think again. It’s time you fill that half-empty cup to the brim and make a toast to those wellness programs. Why? Because we have proof of their return on investment (ROI). (more…)
Although Halloween is over, you can still be in for a fright if you take a look at this graph below. It shows the cost of treating cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, mental disorders and pulmonary conditions in 2003 (the last year this data was available) and projections for 2023.
This data was conducted in the Milken Institute study, “An Unhealthy America: The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease.” Notice this study not only highlights the economic impact of chronic disease, it also leads a great loss in worker productivity. (more…)
RememberItNow! is giving away free eHealth wellness service to the first 50 employers tosign up Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. PST.
ORINDA, Calif. - November 30, 2010 - In spirit of the holidays, RememberItNow! shares free wellness service to first 50 employers to sign up Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. PST. (more…)
Pam Swingley with her father and siblings.
Our founder, Pam Swingley, started RememberItNow! because her father was forgetting to take his medications and she had no insight into his health care. Many Americans over fifty share the same experience of trying to help their parents remain independent and healthy.
USA Today features a similar story about Helen, an active and independent 86 year-old whose energy levels lessened over a period of time, to the point where she began to sleep her days away. Everyone around Helen including her daughter Michelle, her primary caregiver, and her doctors had no clue what was happening to her.
Similar to a lot of individuals in their old age, Helen was afflicted with “multiple medical issues” including congestive health failure, gout, and glaucoma. In 2009, her glaucoma caused her to lose nearly all her sight in one eye due to increasing pressure and was put on Diamox to alleviate her symptoms. (more…)
