http://www.elizablog.com A Healthy Discussion Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.elizablog.com/beyond-health-reform-what-to-expect/ The day before a recent business trip Josh popped into my office to drop off Eliza’s new blog cards. These are about half the size of a normal business card, featuring the red mohawked chocolate rabbit and the elizablog web address. They’re on good paper, and cool, and I since I had been sweating ... http://www.elizablog.com/perspectives/ We often look to the world of consumer product design for inspiration when designing our own outreach. So we read with interest a recent review in Wired magazine that singled out one new mobile device from the crowd. It wasn’t the phone with all the latest bells and whistles – it was ... http://www.elizablog.com/lessons-in-design/ Valentine's Day is a pretty big deal at Eliza. And why not? It's about celebrating life, enjoying yourself, friends and family and the meaningful connections that intertwine us all. - - So how to celebrate? How about some impromptu cards, temporary tattoos and chocolate? (All things in moderation, of course.) - - Moderation? Oh yeah, did we mention the world's largest gummy bear? ... http://www.elizablog.com/vday-at-eliza/ We talk a lot at Eliza about accountability and ownership. It is even one of the criteria that we rate employees against when evaluating their performance. This concept really hit home for me this week when an incident happened with my daughter, who is in the fifth grade. All the elementary ... http://www.elizablog.com/kid-wisdom/ Every year Eliza throws a holiday shindig. Food, fun, friends and of course... - Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! (Note: you must have Flash to watch the dance video above - get it here) - Dancing! Our CEO and President Luke and Alex can cut a rug.  We found this footage in the old Eliza archives ... http://www.elizablog.com/dance-fever-eliza-holiday-party-2010/ I have written in past blogs about cultivating an exciting environment at Eliza and how we as a company are always striving to innovate and improving upon what we know and do. As an HR professional, I don't claim to know it all, and one way we try to keep our edge is ... http://www.elizablog.com/trying-it-on/ 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 ... http://www.elizablog.com/take-that-death-panels/ Few of us really eat as well as we should. It's especially tough in the office.  Tough to get the right food prepared.  So often we end up grabbing junk -- and taking a long time to do it. We've found a solution that's working for us: the office snack bar. Bring in some healthy, quick ... http://www.elizablog.com/how-to-eat-healthy-at-work-office-snack-bar/ 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? - - According to Bruce Kasanoff, author of and founder of the blog NowPossible.com, what we are witnessing is the ... http://www.elizablog.com/making-it-personal-an-interview-with-bruce-kasanoff/ Thank you to everyone who participated in the second annual Blog Rally – as you can see from this partial list of participants it was a great success. We counted over 100 posts plus countless tweets and Facebook postings – people spreading the word and sharing their stories over Thanksgiving weekend. And ... http://www.elizablog.com/thank-you-for-rallying/ Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and ... http://www.elizablog.com/some-conversations-are-easier-than-others/ 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, ... http://www.elizablog.com/end-of-life-talk-isnt-easy-but-its-critical/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Dr. John Kroeker"][/caption] John Kroeker didn’t know it at the time, but a hitchhiking nun in 1978 changed the course of his life. This doctoral student in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell made an impulsive decision to drive the nun upstate to her ashram instead of going back ... http://www.elizablog.com/the-heart-is-in-charge-the-mind-is-a-useful-servant/ 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 ... http://www.elizablog.com/doing-more-with-less-%e2%80%a6-and-making-it-feel-like-more/