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Don’t Sabotage Your Corporate Wellness Program: Part 2

When you are offering incentives to your employees to lead a healthier lifestyle through a corporate wellness program, it’s important to be mindful of the small things that can set them back and make it harder to be successful. We’re outlining a few of the changes that you can make to encourage a positive outcome and [...]

POLL: 73% of Americans would try to lose weight if the government offered an incentive

The question of how and where to apply incentives to behavior change is a popular source of debate. Forbes has a good article summarizing research that shows that the majority of Americans would try to lose weight if the government offered an incentive. Of those that would try, 51% indicated "I would try really hard" to lose [...]

Don’t Sabotage Your Corporate Wellness Program: Part 1

If you are one of the many companies across the nation who has adopted a corporate wellness program to encourage a healthier lifestyle and reduce health insurance costs, congratulations! You already know that a healthy employee is a happy employee, and productivity and loyalty will rise in your favor in return. But there are small things [...]

incentaHEALTH’s Community Wellness Programs Rapidly Engage the Consumer Health Market

Examining the market reach of incentaHEALTH's community wellness platform is yielding some surprising results. In the Colorado market, our Weigh and Win program (run in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente Colorado) has reached almost 2% of the statewide overweight population. For a program only 3 years old, that is a rapid adoption rate. In a similar community wellness [...]

Winners of the Winter Team Challenge achieve a 12% weight loss

Here's an inspiring story of the members of the winning team from our recent Winter Team Challenge. This team lost an impressive 12% average body weight for each member of the team! It's always great to hear from the real world people that are using our wellness platform to transform that behaviors around Healthy Eating and [...]

Weigh and Win participant loses 180 pounds since 2011

The Denver Post has a nice interview with one of our Weigh and Win participants. Carletta has lost 180 pounds through our kiosk-based community wellness program. The Weigh and Win program--the first of its kind in the country--uses patented HEALTHspot kiosks to allow participants to privately track their progress as they learn Healthy Eating and Active [...]

incentaHEALTH powers community weight loss platform in Colorado

In the three years since the program began, Weigh and Win has helped Coloradans lose more than 125,000 pounds and distributed $220,000 in cash rewards. Weigh and Win is a free community program for all Colorado residents that pays cash rewards for weight improvement and maintenance. In 2013, Weigh and Win had over 67,000 weigh-ins completed, integrated with [...]

Maintaining a Corporate Wellness Program – Individual Options

One of the aspects of running a corporate wellness program is the team challenge. Getting many people who work together involved at the same time gives them motivation to lose weight and improve their health for the good of the team, as well as themselves. These people will often be found eating together, going to the [...]

Maintaining a Corporate Wellness Program – Offering the Right Program

How many times have you started a focused corporate wellness program, only to have lukewarm reactions? Many companies have conducted a health risk assessment and offered specific wellness programs to employees, but have discovered that most of these employees have filed the information away and, on occasion, completely forgotten about the entire program because they were [...]

Maintaining a Corporate Wellness Program – Communication

Making sure that you communicate with the participants in your corporate wellness program guarantees that everyone knows what is going on at all times. It’s up to you and your team to make sure you use the proper communication methods, making sure that your employees do not get overwhelmed by participating. One of the communication methods [...]