What Makes a Wellness Program Succeed or Fail? Behavior, Motivation, and Personality
Intuition and recent studies have proven that wellness programs, which actively leverage activity trackers, are great but one size definitely doesn’t fit all. This piece explores the history of activity trackers, how they play out in wellness program and an analysis of one global company’s wellness program participation data. Read more on the full MedCity News piece.
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You’re asking too much of your EHR
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are purported to do a lot of things to support healthcare providers, and most of their claims are generally accurate. Of course, like anything, there are many areas where EHR vendors could and should make improvements.
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Gamification in healthcare only works if you can measure it – here’s how
In business and in sports, it’s all about teams. What teams can accomplish when they work together. How they can fail spectacularly when they do
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Pandemic fuels 2021 healthcare megatrends
When I wrote about megatrends last year, the predictions were, naturally, forward-looking. Telehealth, for example, was important because of increased healthcare consumerism and the convergence of technologies to make its use quick and easy for payers, providers and patients.
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Measuring provider cost and utilization
No matter the time of year, payers and providers should work to agree on a shared source of truth when it comes to data. With the recent end of the year, it’s time to celebrate the new year (who isn’t ready to say goodbye to 2020?) and close the books, which includes the reconciliation of any shared savings or losses.
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