Business Insurance runs a post on how one Ohio county -- Montgomery County, which calls itself the "Birthplace of Innovation" -- helped address increasing health care costs with its wellness program. The post states: "To curb the rapid inflation, Montgomery County...
Of the many factors that can make a workplace wellness program successful, which is most important? Joe Miller, President of the Wellness Research Institute, has a point of view, which he recently published in Employee Benefit News. The key is corporate culture....
What makes for a healthy workplace? This infographic from Intuit offers useful tips:
Need easy tips on how to make your workplace wellness program work? Culture matters. According to the Upstate Business Journal: "While behavior change programs can be effective at producing individual change, programming alone will never be effective at changing...
We've posted frequently on the need to build a strong workplace wellness culture as part of a strong workplace wellness program. Today, more evidence, as Business Insurance reports that "the most successful initiatives build a culture of wellness in the workplace and...
If you're wondering about the connection between employee engagement and health benefits, a new piece from Jennifer Benz in Forbes should answer most -- if not all -- of those questions. And one of the main areas of connection, it turns out, can come from the benefit...
As more employers add wellness to their benefits offerings, one group that sees an increasing level of demand is dietitians, according to Today's Dietitian. The post quotes Madeleine Berg, MS, RD, CDN, who copresented a seminar on worksite wellness last year at the...
USA Today ran a special Employee Well-being Issue, much of which focused on the intersection of technology and workplace wellness. One expert who weighed in was Interactive Health CEO Cathy Kenworthy, who tackled the question of how technology helps improve the...
We have written frequently on the health challenges brought on by diabetes -- and the benefits of screening early. Now Reuters reports: "Earlier screening, diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes may decrease the risk of cardiovascular problems, hint results from a...