Category: Wellness Technology

Getting Healthier with Technology

Technology not only provides easier solutions to many mundane tasks, but is also impacting how we exercise and get healthy. Many people often feel they don’t have enough time or the knowledge to properly exercise and fulfill their health goals. By using amazing smart phone applications, devices and even employee wellness programs, the world of fitness [...]
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Tracking Your Progress with Fitbit!

Reaching fitness and health goals is often burdensome for many, and a large majority of people lose track of their goals as they don’t properly track progress. Tracking your progress on your journey for better health is an essential and extremely useful way to keep yourself motivated and striving toward the finish line. Utilizing a pedometer, [...]
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Tracking how little we move

Fitbit Zip Smart Pedometer The Wall Street Journal has a nice story on the rise in popularity of smart pedometers and activity trackers like the Fitbit and Nike Fuel Band.  I think we often think that we move more than we really do (the article states that the average person takes 5,117 steps per day).  I have found [...]
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Weigh and Win adds its 43rd wellness kiosk in Colorado

The latest HEALTHspot kiosk for the Weigh and Win program has just come online in Boulder Colorado.  Weigh and Win is a community wellness program open to residents of Colorado that are 18 and over.  The program is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and powered by incentaHEALTH's patented HEALTHspot® kiosk.  The kiosk, located at the Boulder Public [...]
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Husband and wife team lose 10% of their body weight with Weigh and Win

Weigh and Win participant Cassie Kauffman weighs in on an incentaHEALTH HEALTHspot kiosk The Greeley Tribune has a neat feature on the Weigh and Win program. In this story you'll hear about how participant Cassie Kauffman uses the customized coaching tools and weight loss incentives to lose weight and stay motivated.  Weigh and Win is a [...]
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Community wellness program reaches 23,000 Coloradans!

Weigh and Win Kiosk Map (partial) In about 18 months over 23,000 citizens of Colorado have enrolled in a first-of-its-kind community wellness program.  The program, a private labeled version of incentaHEALTH called WeighAndWin.com, pays people to achieve a healthy weight.  40 HEALTHspot kiosks are deployed across the state.  Participants simply stop by one of the kiosks [...]
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Kaiser Permanente and incentaHEALTH Team Up to Reduce Obesity

The AP did a nice story about our obesity prevention program with Kaiser Permanente.  We have just finished our first year running the program in Colorado and we've already attracted over 18,000 participants.  And those participants have lost over 40,000 pounds.  In this video you'll meet one of the participants who describes her journey toward better [...]
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