Finish that Report and Lose 20 LBs
January 25, 2008
Employers, frustrated with how growing health care costs for their employees are eating into their bottom line, are experimenting with incentives for workers to get healthier so as to minimize long-term company spending on health care. Smoking-cessation and weight loss programs are now a growing part of employee health plans, with employees rewarded for “good behavior” with lower monthly premiums, or penalized for “bad behavior” with fines - or in one lawsuit-inducing case, firing. IBM, which sponsors a smoking-cessation program for its employees, is about to expand these financial incentives to employees who enroll their children in obesity education.
Nurses Prefer Contact to Computers
January 9, 2008
Picture yourself in a hospital bed. Unpleasant, for sure. But aside from family and maybe friends and a super-competent doctor, what’s the most reassuring presence? A nurse. Nurses are often the lifeblood of hospital care - performing the doctors instructions, making sure you’re as comfortable as possible, administering the pain meds and fetching an extra blanket. But the question is now becoming: would you rather have a nurse hovering over you or hovering over a computer? As hospitals move to adopt new technology to help insure quality of care and to reduce medical errors, nurses find they’re getting more and more face-time with a computer screen than with their patients.
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