LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Employers are beginning to rely more on employees to stem the tide of rising health care costs, but the inability to motivate and change habits has prompted concern, according to Aon Hewitt, the global human resource consulting and outsourcing business of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON). Aon Hewitt surveyed [...]
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MagnaCare, a health plan services company with national reach, announces the release of a White Paper significant to the health care industry and reform efforts nationwide: “The New Face of Chronic Care Management” explores the new paradigm of chronic care management in which coordinated specialty care helps to prevent minor health problems from [...]
Medical Mutual of Ohio, the oldest and largest Ohio-based health insurance company, has partnered with Linkwell Health, a fast-growing developer of innovative health and wellness engagement and loyalty programs, to make it easier for its members to live healthier lives. Linkwell Health provides Medical Mutual with quarterly high value wellness offers and simple-to-follow guidance to [...]
HARTFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aetna (NYSE: AET) and Mindbloom today announced a collaboration that will offer Aetna members an enhanced version of Mindbloom’s Life Game™, an online social game for personal wellness. Starting this fall, Aetna members will have access to a new engagement model that uses the science behind social gaming — a unique blend of [...]
EAGAN, Minn., April 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — He danced. He grooved. He walked. He sweated. And in the end, he did something he wasn’t sure was possible. He got healthy. On Saturday, Twin Cities man Scott Jorgenson, 45, ended his 30 days as “The Human Do.ing,” a project developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield [...]
April 14, 2011 | Foster City, Calif., and Pittsburgh, Pa. — A new generation of personalized wellness powered by genetic knowledge will be offered to Highmark members and individuals through a partnership between Highmark and Navigenics, the two companies announced today. The first partnership of its kind in the nation between Highmark, one of the [...]
SEATTLE, WA – (April 11, 2011) – EveryMove of Seattle, WA and Premera Blue Cross of Mountlake Terrace, WA, have announced a new initiative to jointly develop, test and deploy personal technology tools that can incentivize people to stay active and improve their health in simple, meaningful and effective ways. EveryMove is a technology developer [...]
PHILADELPHIA, April 05, 2011 – As employers seek ways to control benefit costs, more are focusing on benefit programs that offer preventive options and strategies that encourage participation.1 CIGNA has expanded its dental product suite by adding new features that reward people for getting preventive dental care and also provide employers more plan design flexibility, [...]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Priority Health is leading the chorus of health care organizations calling for smart health care and better outcomes. A new web-based tool allows members to evaluate care options prior to choosing surgery. “We each have a responsibility to ask questions of our care givers to ensure the care we receive is the [...]
Golden Valley, Minn. (March 21, 2011) — OptumHealth, one of the nation’s largest health and wellness companies, today announced the release of its OptumizeMe mobile application for iPhone® and AndroidTM devices. Initially launched for Windows® Phone 7 devices, OptumizeMe is now also available for free on these two widely used mobile operating systems. With the [...]