Life & Health

Castlight may help employees avoid emergency care for conditions that are merely urgent, and there is a pharmacy app, as well.

Think your healthcare organization or health plan has healthcare privacy covered? Think again.

"We aren't doctors, and you're not sick, and you never asked for our help and probably never would, but we've got the solution for you anyway."|

There are some 210,000 unnecessary CTS surgeries each year, at a cost of roughly $1.5 billion, much of it covered by workers' comp.|

An electrodiagnostic functional assessment can provide new data--important because hardware removal accounts for 33% of all planned orthopedic surgery.|

The wellness provision of the Affordable Care Act was based on the success story at Safeway and a seminal article in Health Affairs -- both of which turn out to be made up.

Taking a positive view of maternity leaves may not be second nature for employers. But the approach can create high-quality employment relationships--and productivity and profit.

Many of us may be reluctant to question the design of our company's wellness program because it sounds like we are challenging Mom and apple pie. But poorly designed wellness programs can do much more harm than good.