The Triple Aim A 2008 article, The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost, offered a new model to fix the US “health care” system. The Triple Aim article recognized that US was spending more yet falling behind other nations: The recent “Scorecard” from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System gives the U.S. […]
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Reverse Heart Disease There is hope for those who wish to reverse heart disease. Conventional medicine has many life-saving therapies available. However, integrating a Lifestyle approach can offer not just preventative but curative benefits. We were taught in medical school that heart disease is a progressive disease by nature, and medications and interventions could only slow
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Measuring Social Determinants While while non-clinical factors such as loneliness, nutrition, and housing make up 80% or more of our health, we have no good way of measuring social determinants. Here is an opportunity for improvement that can help many! The issue of how best to define and measure loneliness was the focus of comments
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Himalayan Salt Cave The Perry Family took a trip to Riga, Latvia a few years ago. Ostensibly it was for the World Choir Games in which daughter Emily was a participant (and her choir did win the Children’s category!). However, Dad had a plan to leverage the trip and check out a spa on the
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Lifestyle and Complementary Therapies Tackle Health Problems Super Bowl LII is just a few days away and New England Patriot’s QB will again take snaps at this grand event. Brady, 42, released his TB12 healthy lifestyle book in 2017. Brady has also taken the spotlight for his high performance lifestyle. However, Brady is not the
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Author: Tim Perry A debate hosted by IQ2, The US Health Care System Is Terminally Broken, inspired this article. The debaters were all knowledgeable and experienced in the current US “health care” system, including CEOs of major hospital systems. However, I was simply amazed by how poorly the debate went even though everyone agreed “health care” is broken.
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Becoming Happier Honestly, happiness seems to be a relatively new phenomenon in the US workplace. Finding an article like this in Forbes gives hope that businesses see the value for employees becoming happier. Where anything other than a medical procedure or pharmaceutical was often derided, there is now growing interest in non-clinical health determinants. Forbes
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Constantly Hungry It happens all the time. The family just had a meal. Two hours later someone is rifling through the kitchen… “I’m hungry.” How? Everyone ate well at meal time but someone is constantly hungry. The US battle with obesity may well be more than just counting calories. “Why am I constantly hungry?” is
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Mental Benefits of Music The field of Music Therapy continues to demonstrate benefits to help with neurological diseases, trauma, and more. There are, however, mental benefits of music as well. Many of us might recognize such benefits intuitively but researchers are trying to understand this as well. Studies have shown that musical interventions have a
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Well-being Programs Leave Employees Unsatisfied In an economy with nearly full employment employers are realizing the workplace must become more holistic. Most current employer well-being programs leave employees unsatisfied, according to a recent Wills Towers Watson survey. Wellness programs that provide a watered-down annual physical are no longer enough for today’s workforce. Employees look for
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