The debate on healthcare reform continues to simmer.
For anyone who hasn’t read the thousand or so pages of legislation, we invited Jeff Goldsmith Ph.D. (President of of Health Futures, Inc. and Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia) to offer his insight on what we can expect from the next chapter in [...]

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Engage With Grace ranks as one of the 10 phrases that became part of the healthcare lexicon in 2009. 

Thank you again to all who supported this non-partisan effort to have end-of-life care wishes expressed and honored. If nothing else, health reform has given us the opportunity to introduce the concept in a fresh way.
So, what [...]

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Go online and shop for clothes that have been selected to fit your shape at MyShape.com. Log on to Facebook and see ads that have been selected especially for you. What’s going on?
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According to Bruce Kasanoff, author of and founder of the blog NowPossible.com, what we are witnessing is the emerging personal economy—not just in [...]

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Another great article about the importance of broaching difficult conversations around end-of-life wishes appears in the Indianapolis Star this week.

The piece offers advice on how to have these conversations (including using the five questions  offered on Engage With Grace) in a way that’s non-partisan, not mired in legal mumbo-jumbo… just, well, human.
And what better example [...]

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The recession has a way of bringing savings strategies into the mainstream. Competitive coupon clipping, for example.
There’s a great article in Healthcare IT News about how the recession has also driven a trend to more automated calls in healthcare – especially when it comes to connecting people with clinicians who offer health and wellness support.

It’s no secret [...]

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Wow.
Here’s a shout out to all of us working our rumps off to engage people in their health and happiness.
Thank you, thank you to BusinessWeek for taking up the cause – this is an endorsement of the energy we are all spending to help optimize health in a sustainable way.
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Great article on how Americans feel about using technology to help them improve their health – check out the latest issue of Managed Healthcare Executive magazine.

Most people reading a blog post like this won’t be surprised by some of the findings in the recent Microsoft Health Engagement Survey outlined in the article – such as [...]

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Perhaps it’s a sign of age - but these days I find the process of watching change filter through our healthcare system as fascinating as the change itself. Does anyone else remember when health and wellness was the exclusive realm of earnest, crunchy, do-gooders? When employer health coalitions were novel and wielded relatively little influence [...]

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1. CDC’s recommendation that people get the seasonal flu shot early this year to make room for a possible second round of shots to address the H1N1 virus
2. For specific, relevant details on when and where they can get the shot(s)
3. Twitter-induced panic
4. Opportunity to position yourself as a trustworthy source of prevention information
5. Fashion [...]

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An excellent article in the Boston Globe cites a recent Harvard Medical School study which finds that many terminally ill patients and their doctors put off conversations about end-of-life choices. It’s the latest in a series by Globe reporter Kay Lazar, who has been a real champion for this topic. We should all keep [...]

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People go to work everyday. 
People are working more hours.  
As we move from a country of manufacturing to knowledge work, the lines between ‘work’ and ‘life’ are progressively blurring.  
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People know all of the above - they experience it.  Dalton Conely, NYU’s acting Dean for Social Sciences, wrote about what it means.
In Elsewhere U.S.A.: How We Got [...]

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Lots of smart people have lots of great recommendations for Obama’s healthcare reform strategy.
Eliza’s own Alex Drane joins other Boston-based healthcare and healthcare IT folks by sharing her perspective here.
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As if it weren’t enough to be worried about the tenuous job market and our dwindling retirement savings – now the economy is even affecting our waistlines.
Then again, maybe the recession will actually be a good thing. Ready for the “back-to-basics bailout diet”?
Those of you who have been to an Eliza meeting know we’re all [...]

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