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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. Choice architecture (especially a healthy “default” if no choice is taken) Tools to make healthful choices easier than unhealthy choices. Previously, Dr.

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Do Workplace Wellness Programs Save Money? We Find Out.

HR Digest

An International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans report showed that most North American employers saved $1 to $3 in their overall health care costs for every dollar spent on an employee wellness program. Organizations offer wellness programs to improve health and fitness and control chronic diseases among employees.

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The U.S. Health Care System Isn’t Built for Primary Care

Harvard Business Review

Box checking and perverse incentives undermine the patient/physician relationship.

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How Telemedicine Can Ease ER Overcrowding

The Horizons Tracker

. “This longstanding problem is mainly driven by the imbalance between increasing patient flow and the shortage of emergency room capacity,” the researchers explain. “While the ER is supposed to be a safety net of the health care system, the overcrowding problem has strained this safety net and posits various threats.”

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Employee Benefits: Types, Cost & Examples

HR Digest

But the more you know about the types of employee benefits offered by your employer, the better equipped you’ll be to make informed decisions about health care, retirement plans, and other important financial matters. Each employee benefit has its own cost, but they can all vary depending on your company’s size and budget.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? health-care system is striving to get to.”

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Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

Harvard Business Review

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.