As employers continue to empower workers to be more health focused, they are beginning to target and reward those workers who demonstrate a real commitment to making positive lifestyle changes.
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Health
This is an important finding for the 30 million people world-wide who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes every year.
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Study Suggests Low-Consuming Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Disease Are More Costly to Program.
One out of every four Medicare dollars is spent on beneficiaries with diabetes, with a high percentage attributed to tertiary illness caused by unmanaged or under-managed diabetes.
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“To combat the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States, we need to encourage innovative healthcare solutions,” said President Clinton.
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American patients often get access to new and better medicines well ahead of patients around the world, and this homegrown innovation not only saves lives, it helps the American economy…
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The money will help states implement and evaluate provider performance measures and utilize health information technologies such as pediatric electronic health records and other quality improvement initiatives.
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The Innovation Initiative will allow employees to enter health information technology ideas in a variety of categories, such as engaging Veterans in their care, helping medical providers, increasing transparency, and improving workflow.
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Open to all state employees, the Governor’s weight loss competition will begin on Feb. 15 and end in mid-May.
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The awards will help make health IT available to over 100,000 hospitals and primary care physicians by 2014 and train thousands of people for careers in health care and information technology.
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