Alex Bettencourt - November 29, 2010
In case you haven’t heard, the 2010 United Benefits Advisors (UBA) Employer Opinion Survey has been published and it’s quite the eye-opener! Conducted in October 1, 2009 to June 4, 2010, the UBA survey proves to be a valuable resource again for employers of small to midsize companies which represent the majority of the nation’s 5 million-plus employers.
If you happen to be one of those employers, we suggest taking a long glimpse into UBA’s Opinion Survey and see how your fellow colleagues are managing pertinent health plan standards and milestones. The survey is an excellent resource to help you make important decisions about benefits.
The survey also reveals more employers (44% of them) are able to afford their (more…)
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Alex Bettencourt - November 19, 2010
Thank You On Behalf of RememberItNow!
As the breeze gets cooler and leaves turn orange, and red,
We eagerly wait for Thanksgiving to break our bread.
We look forward to giving thanks, to feast, smile and laugh.
And I’d like to share gratitude on RememberItNow’s behalf.
First, thank you to all our users for taking a chance on us.
Cheers to trying RememberItNow! and hopping on board our eHealth bus. (more…)
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Alex Bettencourt - November 14, 2010
If you are a self-funded employer, you probably understand the headache of covering medical costs; especially when it’s time to slice off the fat of your budget. Unfortunately, many employers go straight to their wellness programs.
You might as well be reaching for your aorta. Even though you can’t see the largest artery in your body, it’s the most important organ supplying you with life-saving oxygen throughout your body. (more…)
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Alex Bettencourt - November 14, 2010
Category: Corporate Wellness Programs
Company: Keas
Website: https://www.keas.com
Country: US
Google buzz meter: High+
Key Features: Keas provides online health quizzes, lab results, care plans and packages, and interactive online software tools.
About Keas:
Keas was founded by former Google Health head Adam Bosworth and Boston-area tech veteran George Kassabgi. As an online health platform, Keas gives patients the opportunity to track their health data and interpret it in a fun way so individuals can be healthy as possible. Keas also offers Care Plans that come in all different types if shapes and sizes. Each Care Plan is private, tailored to an individual’s personal health needs, and easy to use.
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Deborah Leader, RN, BSN, PH - November 11, 2010
Is Your PHR Personal Enough?
With the continued advancement of software, managing your personal health record has never been easier; and it’s never been more personal. Now, at the click of a mouse you can let your fingers do the walking without ever leaving your home. (more…)
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Alex Bettencourt - November 10, 2010
Category: Corporate Wellness Programs
Company: PureWellness
Website: http://www.purewellness.com
Country: US
Google buzz meter: High
Key Features: Pure Wellness offers a single integrated wellness platform with health risk assessments, compliance monitoring, diet and exercise programs, team challenges, interactive health coaching tools, online wellness workshops, text and email reminders, pedometer based walking programs, incentive management and tracking.
About Pure Wellness:
PureWellness offers online wellness programs supporting corporate wellness and health promotion. It’s your one stop partner for delivering an integrated, complete wellness solution because it delivers real ROI and benefits. PureWellness empowers individuals to implement and manage a state of the art, evidence based high touch AND high tech wellness initiative.
Using PureWellness, employers will see healthier behavior and better outcomes across their enterprise. By making programs easier to manage both online and offline, PureWellness helps you to make a bigger wellness impact in people’s lives.
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Alex Bettencourt - November 9, 2010
Category: Medical Evaluation
Company: Teladoc
Website: http://www.teladoc.com
Country: US
Google buzz meter: High+
Key Features: Online phone and video consultation with a doctor.
About Teladoc:
Teladoc is the first and largest telehealth provider in the nation, founded in 2002. What differentiates Teladoc from other telehealth providers is that all of their doctors are board-certified family practitioners, PCPs and internists who use electronic health records to diagnose, treat, and write prescriptions for Teladoc members.
Their credentialing process far exceeds National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) standards. Teladoc physicians are also credentialed every two years.
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Alex Bettencourt - November 9, 2010
Category: Medical Evaluation
Company: Telethrive
Website: http://www.telethrive.com/
Country: US
Google buzz meter: Low
Key Features: Online network of certified physicians available to speak on demand.
About Telethrive:
TeleThrive technology ensures a patient can contact a physician regardless of time or location. Using dynamic call routing to a pool of physician providers, their software guarantees access to treatment anytime, anywhere.
While this may seem complex, it only requires that the patient and physician know how to use a telephone - patients call into the system, and their software connects them with an available TeleThrive physician.
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Kwame Ahene - November 8, 2010
In a recent Chilmark research article, we are introduced to the term Collaborative Health Records (CHRs). While sweet and encompassing in name, the implications of this novel health recording system have the capability of changing the contours of how we perceive all electronic health information systems.
As mentioned in the article, divisions between patient centric and hospital centric health records can create a potential problem of hindering care rather than promoting it. CHRs are defined as a collaborative effort that seamlessly link EHRs and PHRs, which are geared towards the medical community and patients respectively.
Information liquidity remains to be a pertinent issue and it seems as though the development of the “Collaborative Health Record” can bring light to the situation. Cerner’s Health 2.0 demonstration of Cerner Health and Cerner Active presents a comparable model of how CHRs may work in the future. Within their model, information is seamlessly shared between the two applications. Even with increased liquidity, many questions can be asked of its viability.
On another note, current market fluxes like Google’s tango with their PHR and Epic’s release of their MyChart iPhone app have been steamrolling the competition in EHR installations. Meanwhile, Verizon and Orange Telecom have been providing larger Health Information Exchange (HIE) infrastructures to push adaptation towards to CHRs from EHRs and PHRs too.
Until then, I pose this question: What are the largest barriers you see blocking full adoption of CHRs?
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Alex Bettencourt - November 8, 2010
Category: Disease Prevention
Company: Healthways
Website: http://www.healthways.com/
Country: US
Google buzz meter: High
Key Features: Customized Wellness programs; Wellness Programs for seniors like, Silver Sneakers and Hospital Wellness Enhancement.
About Healthways:
Healthways offers comprehensive solutions that improve well-being, decrease health care costs, enhance performance and generate economic value for their customers.
By listening to individuals, focusing on engagement, and applying leading science and technology, Healthways offers a wellness approach that actually brings change. They have delivered innovative well-being solutions for three decades.
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