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In Nashville, TN, there is a collaborative movement underway to improve the health of the city that involves the largest employers, health care systems, non-profits and community leaders. Key to this movement called NashvilleHealth, are the use of data, the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health Tags: Business Group on Health, community health, equity, health data, Health Discrimination, health disparities, NashvilleHealth, population health, William Frist
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How can workplaces create equality, inclusion and belonging for LGBTQ+ employees? That’s the topic of this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, in which we speak with Beck Bailey, Managing Director of Inclusion & Diversity at Accenture. A [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Accenture, Beck Bailey, Business Group on Health, Diversity, Equality, equity, inclusion, LGBTQ, LGBTQ inclusion, psychological safety
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The day the WHO declared a global pandemic. The roll-out of the first vaccines. The rise of the Delta variant. The announcement of vaccine mandates. For all these moments and everything in between, Apoorva Mandavilli has been tirelessly reporting on [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Apoorva Mandavilli, Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employer sponsored health care, pandemic, vaccines
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While most of us would agree that the U.S. health care system isn’t efficient, the path forward to decreasing costs while maintaining quality often seems overwhelming. So where do we begin? And how can we create a “constituency for efficiency” [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, health care costs, health care quality, health care spending, payment reform, Zack Cooper
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For decades, the Ad Council has brought together the advertising industry to serve the social good through public service engagement; today, they’re providing critical information to Americans across the country about the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on building [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Ad Council, Business Group on Health, Charysse Nunez, COVID-19, employer health, pandemic, vaccination
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In July 2020, we spoke with Professor Mauro Guillén, author of 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, on the global factors influencing the next decade and the role of COVID-19 as an accelerant [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employer health, future trends, pandemic, workforce trends
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The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. has downgraded the coronavirus pandemic from an existential threat to a manageable challenge, according to Andy Slavitt, former Senior Advisor for COVID Response in the Biden Administration. But despite the great strides [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Andy Slavitt, Business Group on Health, COVID-19, pandemic response, vaccines
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Entities across the U.S. are pulling out all the stops to urge people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, from entries into multi-million-dollar lotteries, to free college tuition, to giveaways galore. On this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health Tags: behavioral economics, Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employee engagement, incentives, vaccines
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According to Dr. Joe Allen, even though we spend 90% of our lives indoors, we often overlook the role that buildings play in our health and well-being. But for employers thinking about bringing employees back to the office this summer [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, COVID-19, Dr. Joe Allen, healthy buildings, Joseph G. Allen, post-pandemic, return to work
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It’s no secret that the pandemic has been detrimental to our mental health. The American Psychological Association’s report, Stress in America 2021: Pandemic Stress One Year On, quantifies the toll it’s taken, illuminating the profound effect of prolonged stress on [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: American Psychological Association, Business Group on Health, Coronavirus, COVID-19, emotional health, mental health, Pandemic Stress
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For more than a year we’ve upended our daily lives and altered our behavior to avoid contracting the coronavirus. Post-vaccination, why are we uncertain and even anxious about taking off masks around other vaccinated people, sending our kids back to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Coronavirus, COVID-19, emotional health, FONO, Lucy McBride, mental health, Post-vaccination
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the future of health care, but according to Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, it can also harm as much as it can help. That’s because bias and errors are built into the very algorithms [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, Business Group on Health, Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, health care bias, health care data, health equity, machine learning
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For years, experts have been sounding the alarm that burnout is endangering the health and well-being of employees across the globe. Then the pandemic happened, and according to burnout expert Jennifer Moss, the stress of the last year “has been [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: burnout, Business Group on Health, employer health, Jennifer Moss, pandemic, workplace stress
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The data on worldwide obesity are stunning: obesity has tripled in the last 50 years and overweight and obesity kill more people than underweight. How can we come together as a global community to halt this devastating disease? According to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Dr. Olivia Barata Cavalcanti, employer health, obesity, pandemic, weight management
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Is returning to the workplace on the horizon? With COVID-19 cases falling and vaccination numbers rising, heading back to the office suddenly seems plausible. But how and when this can happen depends on a number of factors, including the effectiveness [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Leana Wen, employer health, pandemic, return to work
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The COVID-19 vaccines offer promise for a brighter future but “we’re not out of the woods yet,” says Dr. Bob Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF. In a race against emerging variants, efficient vaccine distribution [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccines, Dr. Bob Wachter, pandemic, UCSF, Vaccine Distribution, vaccines
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Since March 2020, American workers have saved about 89 million work days from not commuting as frequently or at all, says Dr. Ashley Whillans. And yet many of us still struggle with too much to do and too little time [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: behavioral science, Business Group on Health, Dr. Ashley Whillans, employee engagement, happiness, Harvard Business School
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Racism and other systemic inequities lead to poor health outcomes for racial minority groups, says the president of the American Medical Association in our latest podcast. Dr. Susan Bailey, in conversation with Business Group on Health CEO Ellen Kelsay, explores [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: AMA, American Medical Association, Business Group on Health, Dr. Susan Bailey, Ellen Kelsay, employer health, health care, health equity, Racism
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Weight bias is a pervasive problem in our society, showing up in our homes, physician offices and even the workplace. But weight bias isn’t just a social injustice, it’s also a public health issue due to its far-ranging effects on [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Dr. Rebecca Puhl, employer health, obesity, stigma, weight bias
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One of the many tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic is its impact on those struggling with substance use disorders. Overdose deaths in the U.S. are estimated to reach an all-time high in 2020, likely driven by stress, isolation and decreased [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health Tags: addiction, Business Group on Health, employer health, mental health, stigma
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Even before COVID-19, the U.S. was facing a caregiving crisis. And now, well over half of Americans are worrying about, taking care of, or looking out for a friend, neighbor or family member due to pandemic. But as these unpaid [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Caregivers, caregiving, employer health, mental health
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For far too long, investments in digital health solutions for women have been underfunded. According to Rock Health, just 3% of the US digital health deals since 2011 have focused on women’s health and well-being. But that’s all changing. Increased [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, digital health, employer health, Sari Kaganoff, virtual care, women’s health
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Black women in the U.S. are two to three times more likely to die during or following childbirth than white women. And although Black women are about as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer as their white counterparts, they’re [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, employer health, health care quality, health disparities, health equity, LuAnn Heinen, Valerie Montgomery Rice