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Insurers lower cost-sharing for preventive drugs | Aetna, WellPoint, Humana cut patients' costs to improve compliance, outcomes

By Steven Ross Johnson | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine

Some major health insurers have reduced patient cost-sharing for preventive drugs out of a growing realization that lowering cost-sharing improves compliance and cuts the total cost of care.
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Flu vaccinations peaked last year, but still short of goals

By Steven Ross Johnson | September 26, 2013 | Basic Web

Influenza vaccinations among children and healthcare personnel reached record levels last year, according to federal officials, but the overall vaccination rate remained short of meeting goals of minimizing the risk of a potential outbreak.
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Filling a need | Some want to expand role of dental hygienists

By Ashok Selvam | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine

For the past six years, a University of Washington program has trained indigenous tribal members across Alaska as dental hygienists to combat the epidemic of tooth decay suffered by native Alaskans and others living in Alaska's rural areas.
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Penn Staters protest wellness program's steep fines

By Reuters | August 16, 2013

An open letter opposing Penn State's 2014 wellness requirements has sparked a protest by more than 2,000 faculty and staff employees who argue that it is coercive and ask that it be halted.
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Lab results do little to change older adults' behavior, research finds

By Melanie Evans | August 15, 2013

Here's discouraging news: New research has found poor results from blood sugar and blood pressure tests did not appear to prompt healthy changes to diet and exercise among older adults.
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UnitedHealth's patient engagement program sees health improvements, study says

By Joseph Conn | August 06, 2013

A patient engagement and reporting program linked to financial incentives yielded multiple improvements in health measures for employees of UnitedHealth Group, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
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On the warpath against wellness | Authors say companies should focus on outliers, not corporate programs

By Modern Healthcare | July 27, 2013 | Print Magazine

The authors of Cracking Health Costs say more companies should re-evaluate their approach to wellness programs.
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NYC doctors are now prescribing fruits and veggies

By NPR | July 25, 2013

Doctors typically give patients prescriptions for medications. But a new program in New York City has doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables to obese or overweight patients.
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Apple is suddenly really interested in health tech

By GigaOm | July 19, 2013

We know Apple CEO Tim Cook loves his Nike FuelBand. And the fitness-tracking wristband seems to be inspiring how the company is thinking about its own wearable device: it’s begun hiring several experts in health tech.
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Racial disparities in life spans narrow, but persist

By New York Times | July 18, 2013

The gap in life expectancy between black and white Americans is at its narrowest since the federal government started systematically tracking it in the 1930s, but a difference of nearly four years remains, and federal researchers have detailed why in a new report.
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