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Workplace Wellness Lab delivers leading insights, ideas and information on wellness, health management, and healthy living.

Our goal is simple: Workplace Wellness Lab provides regular and better information as an important path to create healthy individual outcomes, while helping change health care in America.

By connecting the audiences that matter – consultants, corporate executives, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, customers, and more – we establish a positive, substantive, and influential voice within the wellness industry that makes the case that:

    • Left unchecked, current trends in health spend and outcomes are unsustainable.
    • Given that half the healthcare dollars in this country are incurred by employers, well-executed preventive care health management programs in the worksite are clearly enduring and valuable, helping drive improved workplace environments and individual outcomes.
    • Industry coherence around private sector innovation to drive effective health management programs is economically vital, given what’s possible in a spend category that is arguably one of the greatest challenges in America today.

Workplace Wellness Lab comes at this challenge principally from the employer point of view: What are the credible and demonstrated best practices in preventive care to structure programs that have an enduring impact? How can the impact be made explicit, as something that is both the right thing to do and a proactive business initiative that lowers the cost of care, as experienced by both employers and employees?

And Workplace Wellness Lab goes beyond the workplace. It’s a robust platform filled with ideas and insights from those that influence how employers think about this opportunity: research organizations, non-profits, think tanks and more.

From an editorial point of view, great ideas can come from anywhere. With that philosophy in mind, we will combine our own original content with other content across the web. We organize the content, with a view to making it as simple and useful as possible.

All content will be sourced. If we found it somewhere, we’ll tell you where we got — and how to get to that site yourself.

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Can digital coaching help people manager Type 2 Diabetes?

The role of web-based wellness support was highlight by Interactive Health, which previously announced a “member website that provides custom health pathways that will transform the way people engage in and improve their health.”

Indeed, the workplace wellness provider noted that “Interactive Health’s data indicates that individuals who engage with their member website have a 15-percent higher rate of achievement of personal health goals than those who do not use the online tools. Interactive Health expects that percentage to increase with the enhanced web tools and ongoing innovation.”

Now comes a new report from MedPage Today that “Digital coaching was an effective tool for helping patients manage their type 2 diabetes.”

It states: “According to a late-breaking abstract presented at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) annual meeting), engagement with a digital coaching program helped patients lose an average of 4.9 lbs and drop one percentage point in HbA1c after 3 months of participation.”

The report may help well-run workplace wellness programs — particularly ones that utilize effective digital tools — engage more deeply with businesses and employees.

Indeed, the study's senior author and the company's clinical director, Dhiren Patel, PharmD, told MedPage Today: “Based on these findings, it's important to engage patients beyond the clinic doors, and digital health coaching can help address a lot of the social determinants of health.”

Importantly, results from the report indicate positive results may extend over time.

MedPage writes: “These positive outcomes extended beyond just 3 months, with similar average reductions in HbA1c and weight maintained throughout 6, 9, and 12 months after the digital program was started:”

  • “6 months: average 4.4 lbs weight loss; 0.91% HbA1c reduction”
  • “9 months: 5.9 lbs weight loss; 0.90% HbA1c reduction”
  • “12 months: 4.5 lbs weight loss; 0.92% HbA1c reduction”

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