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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?

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We are all about the path to wellness… but this new innovation caught our eye. And part of the path to wellness includes being prepared.

TedMed reports on one such innovation: A new app that let's you know where to find the nearest defibrillator.

First, a major caveat: The app was only just launched and so far seems only to cover Philadelphia County. But it's clear how far this could go.

“It’s hard to imagine a more concrete use of mobile health technology than Raina Merchant’s MyHeartMap Challenge. Working with a group of students at Penn Medicine, Merchant, an emergency medicine doctor with a keen interest on how crowdsourcing can further solutions in medicine, developed an app for citizen sleuths to mark the locations of AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) in Philadelphia County. A mobile-compatible website allows users to find the AED nearest them.”

The competition was part of the Penn Defibrillator Design Challenge.

According to TedMed: “To date, there is no universal database showing where to find the devices, which can help jump start a heart that’s been hobbled by cardiac arrest. Showing a keen knowledge of human motivation, Merchant made the search into a contest with cash prizes of up to $10,000. Participants could also win $50 for spotting a “golden” AED, a la eggs or Willie Wonka’s Tickets. The Challengers mapped some 9,000 AEDs in Pennsylvania alone, a total Merchant hopes to expand nationally.”

If you have more time, here's a fascinating video on “crowdsourcing research at last week’s Great Challenges Hangout on Medical Innovation.”

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