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"Blue Shield of California finds social apps and rewards engage its employees in wellness programs, sees potential for its insurance customers."
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A major West Coast health plan has jumped on the social gaming/networking trend in fitness and wellness applications. Blue Shield of California is already offering one such program to its employees and will soon provide two more.
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Recent research had shown the power of social connectedness in improving health outcomes, and mobile health apps were suddenly catching on among consumers
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"The Pew Research Center has released a new report on its long-term Internet & American Life Project, this time focusing on how millennials will be affected by the hyperconnectivity of their lives by 2020. This is based on interviews with over a thousand select thought leaders on the subject.
This study by Janna Quitney Anderson of Elon University and Lee Raine of the Pew Research Center released a few days ago has some particularly interesting observations and comments from the people interviewed. The report is based on interviews, and therefore an aggregate view of how many predict the future of the newest working generation"
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They do not suffer notable cognitive shortcomings as they multitask and cycle quickly through personal- and work related tasks. Rather, they are learning more and they are more adept at finding answers to deep questions, in part because they can search effectively and access collective intelligence via the internet.
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Some 42% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited:
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"Le supercalculateur Watson d'IBM doit commencer son travail d'évaluation en matière de traitement du cancer, à l'hôpital Cedars-Sinai de Los Angeles. Il pourra suggérer aux médecins le traitement le plus adapté en quelques secondes."
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Là où Watson se montre vraiment utile dans ce contexte, c'est sur la richesse des informations qu'il est capable de traiter, informations en constante évolution, qui lui parviennent sous différentes formes, structurées et non structurées, depuis des systèmes eux-mêmes disparates », a expliqué Steve Gold. « Le secteur de la santé est particulièrement bien adapté pour tirer profit de cette compétence. »
"IBM has a long-standing commitment to health care and global health. This week the company revamped its "patient portal." Dubbed the IBM Patient Empowerment System, it now acts like a social network for participating patients. "
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Especially intriguing here is the interactive nature of the Patient Empowerment System--if a person has an urgent question about the interaction of two drugs, the system will cross check his or her medical records and background and warn yes or no to taking a particular medicine
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It also allows patients to log in, update their profiles with prescription information, symptom complaints, blood pressure readings, and to find other patients struggling with similar illnesses or diseases. A patient can send a message to other patients and ask questions about certain medications or offer advice from personal experience
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"C’est tout à fait intéressant car cela dénote une vision des relations sociales comme imprégnée d’une politique de Responsabilité Sociale Economique et moins de celle des relations sociales traditionnelles.
En effet Marian partant du résultat de son analyse de la quasi absence de stratégie des OS sur les réseaux sociaux et le web 2.0 en vient à faire porter sur la DRH la necessité de remettre les OS dans un positionnement plus en adéquation avec les attentes des salariés. Je ne suis plus mesuré car on peut voir sur Facebook, twitter une présence timide de ces OS mais il est vrai que les choses bougent vite!"
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Pour autant la DRH doit aussi évaluer si les syndicats jouent un minimum le jeu du dialogue social, en utilisant ses moyens pour se professionnaliser, se former, travailler les dossiers et surtout chercher des compromis permettant un développement durable du collectif et de l’entreprise.
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On peut imaginer que les outils mis à disposition par le 2.0 pourraient permettre de repenser les processus d’adhésion, de fidélisation, d’information ou encore de sensibilisation par rapport aux différentes problématiques telles que la pénibilité, le stress ou la santé au travail.
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"Mayo Clinic, which has a campus in Jacksonville, has come a long way in just a few years, since adding a Facebook page with more than 3,000 friends, a YouTube channel with videos of doctors talking about illness, treatments and research, a health blog for consumers and another for media to improve the process of medical reporting. It’s also creating “secret groups” on Facebook to connect patients to others with similar illnesses, an area it hopes to expand in the future."
Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
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- 67 percent of the companies polled said employees were more productive, largely because they spent less time getting to and from work.
- 59 percent reported seeing cost savings from reduced use of office-related materials and resources.
- 39 percent said they have access to a more qualified staff, expanding their options to people who are located in - and not willing to relocate from - other regions. Likewise, 37 percent said telecommuting improved employee retention.
- 25 percent said employee health was improved, largely by reducing stress levels associated with the commute.
- Other benefits included promotion of safety through reduced highway use (18 percent) and environmental benefits (17 percent)
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