Population Health Insights – Page 19

Weigh and Win Achieves 30,000 Participants in Colorado!

We have just crossed a significant milestone in the growth of the Weigh and Win program: 30,000 individuals in Colorado have joined the program! Close to 70,000 pounds have been lost so far. You can read the full press release in our Media Gallery.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Community-based obesity prevention program powered by incentaHEALTH featured on Colorado’s Best

Here is a quick clip about Weigh and Win that was just featured on Colorado's Best. In this interview you'll see one of incentaHEALTH's Health Coaches talking about how the program works. The best part is hearing from an actual participant as she describes how the program has helped her lose over 50 pounds! The before-and-after [...]

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 [...]

Good infographic about the benefits of laughter!

Program participants blogs about her weight loss experience using the HEALTHspot kiosk

Weigh and Win Success Story as told by Cassie Here's a neat blog post from a participant in Weigh and Win (the version of incentaHEALTH that we private labeled and operate for Kaiser Permanente). In the post, you'll hear program participant Cassie talk about her weight loss journey. It's always fun to see how the program works in [...]

One more reason to get out of your chair

Don't just sit there! The USA Today has a nice piece today on the correlation between sitting and life expectancy. As you might have guessed, spending a lot of time sitting increases your risk. In the study, scientists found that if you reduced your time spent sitting to less than 3 hours, you could add 2 [...]

Health Task Force encourages doctors to screen for obesity, and urge patients to lose weight

The U.S. Preventive Services Task force on Monday released a new report urging physicians to take a more active role in addressing the obesity epidemic in the United States. According to the new guidelines, doctors are encouraged to screen for obesity when meeting with their patients. Even though it's standard practice to measure weight and height [...]

A peek inside Google’s new healthier cafeteria

Google has done some neat analysis on how its employees use the free cafeteria's. Based on the findings, they have made some neat tweaks to how they present their food. Take a look at the results in this article from Fast Company. Fast Company article on Google's cafeteria overhaul