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A Company Health & Wellness Center that Delivers High Value Low Cost Healthcare – Is it Possible?

N2Growth Blog

The changing landscape created by the Affordable Care Act has made it difficult, but not impossible to assert control over company health care spend. If the answer is yes, then you may be interested in finding ways where the quality of care and the costs are under your control.

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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

Way back in 1957 Parkinson used the example of a finance committee spending hardly any time approving the construction of a nuclear power station, then going on to spend hours debating the construction of a bike shed.

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WHE06: Healthy Eating in the Workplace | with Alison Acerra from Guckenheimer

Engaging Leader

Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The finance team in a Health Care Company. The finance team in groups of 3 flip charted those responses. We discussed who is getting expenses and reports in on time AND specifically how the finance people made that happen. They did that and created an AMAZING Finance Department Knowledge System.

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WHE07: Pitfalls of Workplace Wellness: Does It Do More Harm Than Good? | with Al Lewis

Engaging Leader

Al Lewis claims that what he calls the “pry, poke, prod” model of corporate wellness leads to hyperdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, which is dangerous for patients and drives up health care costs. Al’s book on outcomes measurement, Why Nobody Believes the Numbers was named 2012 health care book of the year in Forbes.

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Health of the Business Landscape in the U.S.

Coaching Tip

Biggest gains: health care and social assistance (12% growth since 2009, an increase of 6,385 establishments); mining and oil and gas extraction (12%, 1,001); accommodation and food services (10%, 4,276); professional, scientific, and technical services (9%, 5,979). Nearly 30,000 more establishments in 2012 than 2009, up 5%.

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Slack Is Needed If The Digital Transformation Of Healthcare Is To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

We know that health care work environments and job demands have a profound effect on the health and well-being of those delivering care, and they may even influence the quality of health care received by patients,” the researchers say.