Apr 7, 2016 | Employers & Health Plans
Pregnancy is a time of mixed emotions; joy, fear, stress and anticipation. A strong support team is top priority for an expectant mother and is essential both throughout the pregnancy and after delivery. Premature births account for 1 in every 10 pregnancies and carry...
Dec 17, 2015 | Employers & Health Plans
The average lifetime expenditure for healthcare is currently $316,000 and much of the cost is clearly linked to health habits. Poor health habits are strongly associated with illness and are strong predictors of future health care costs. For example, the lifetime...
Dec 17, 2015 | Employers & Health Plans
Did You Know? Individuals with multiple metabloc risk factors are three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke1The presence of multiple metabolic risk factors is thought to be one of the drivers of the growing problem of diabetes and cardiovascular...
Jul 22, 2015 | Employers & Health Plans
Telligen’s Vice President of Sales & Development at Telligen was recently featured in The Shift Shapers podcast. The episode covers the importance of data analytics in understanding a population and assisting providers while also helping to bend the cost curve and...
Jun 19, 2015 | Employers & Health Plans
Did you know sleep apnea affects nearly 43 million Americans and raises the death risk by 46% for those affected? What is more alarming is that 75 percent of severe cases remain undiagnosed. What is Sleep Apnea? Sleep apnea occurs when a person stops breathing during...
Jun 19, 2015 | Employers & Health Plans
Early in 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent a strong signal to the healthcare market by aggressively accelerating the timeline to shift healthcare purchasing from ‘Volume to Value.’ What is ‘Volume to Value?’ In simple terms, it’s about how...
