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June 2011 Issue

WellNet Healthcare Group Adds Seven New Personnel Members to Serve Clients

WellNet Healthcare Group, a national health management company, announced several new management additions, including three new hires from Wall Street. Scott Bevier has joined its team as Chief Oper...

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New Study: Prescription Drug Spending Rose to $307 Billion In 2010

Spending for prescription drugs in the U.S. in 2010 rose by 2.3 percent, the lowest rate in years, while the volume of medicines used rose by just 0.5 percent, a new study from the IMS Institute ...

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Discovery Health Study: Wellness Programs Lower Healthcare Costs

A new study conducted by Discovery Health’s incentive-based wellness program, Vitality, reports wellness programs that incorporate positive incentives can lead to behavior change that, ov...

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Harvard Business Review Analytics: How Companies Are Using Social Media

While a growing number of companies are experimenting with social media as a way to have a new conversation with customers, few feel they have the metrics and tools in place to judge the impact of t...

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Predictive Modeling Employed by Insurance Carriers, Deloitte Reports

Advances in predictive analytics allow insurance carriers to use data acquired at first notice of loss to segment claims by severity, Deloitte (New York) says in its latest report, “Driving Op...

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Trend: The Coming Age of the Patient Navigator

They’re called embedded care managers, patient navigators, even geriatric coordinators. Increasingly, health plans and physicians’ offices are catching on to the idea that this extra lay...

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HIMSS Analytics: Payers Could Do Better Job of Leveraging Data

Using clinical analytics to lower healthcare costs emerged as the top driver for payers, according to a whitepaper in the second annual study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and sponsored by Anvit...

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Wellness and Productivity Trends in the Workplace

Many companies are incorporating wellness programs that include health club memberships into their benefit packages as a way to increase enterprise productivity, according to the Healthcare Leaders ...

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Milliman Says Cost of Healthcare is Exploding

The cost of healthcare for a typical family of four has increased 7.3 percent this year, to $19,393, according to Milliman, Inc. That figure was published in the  2011 Milliman Medical Index&nb...

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Survey: C-Suite Executives Expect More from Risk Managers

The financial crisis has raised expectations that C-suite executives have of their risk managers to be leaders within their organizations. These top executives want their risk manager...

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