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Oct 12, 2018
1 min

Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: Too Much Healthcare, Too Much Prevention, & Too Many Lab Tests?

The Commonwealth Fund found an inverse relationship between employer spending on healthcare and the number of preventable...

Oct 8, 2018
4 min

New Study Says We Shouldn’t Drink. Ignore It.

A recent study in The Lancet concluded that the only safe level of alcohol consumption is: none. As the principal investigator said:...

Oct 6, 2018
1 min

Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: Conflicted Physicians, Nicotine Successes, and Diet Failures

The New England Journal of Medicine published its first-ever article about wellness [behind a paywall but worth signing up for the free...

Sep 28, 2018
1 min

Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: Open Enrollment Speed Bumps and EEOC Update

As open enrollment fast approaches for most companies, we recommend three articles. What employees don’t know about health insurance can...

Aug 13, 2018
3 min

Should Employees Start Colon Screening at Age 45?

The American Cancer Society (ACS) recently decided that, because the rate of colon cancer has increased by an “alarming” 22 percent in...

Jul 25, 2018
3 min

Could new blood pressure guidelines harm employees & waste money?

Few things create as much employee stress as being told they have a chronic condition, such as high blood pressure. High blood pressure...

Jul 24, 2018
2 min

EEOC Update: Leading Wellness Vendors Foresee “Wild West of Litigation” in 2019

Stay up to date on the latest news and developments on the EEOC wellness ruling by registering for our upcoming webinar. (Quizzify...

Jul 11, 2018
2 min

BenefitsPro Tackles Pending EEOC Wellness Rule Change

It’s not just us. The pending EEOC wellness rule change has become a large enough concern that BenefitsPro devoted their lead article...

Jun 20, 2018
1 min

Quizzify Applauds Choice of Atul Gawande to Lead Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Joint Venture

The newly announced CEO's philosophy is nearly indistinguishable from Quizzify’s: “Virtually every family in the country, the research...

Jun 8, 2018
1 min

Sunburn and Ivy and Ticks, Oh My!

How well do t-shirts block sunlight? How fast does poison ivy spread? How would you know if you got sick from a tick? Excess sun, poison...

Jun 7, 2018
1 min

Webinar Recap: The Pending EEOC Wellness Rule Changes

How Quizzify Turns Lemons into Lemonade. Live webinar recorded on May 16, 2018. About the webinar: While much still remains unknown, one...

Apr 23, 2018
3 min

Should coffee carry a warning label?

This post is by Quizzify co-founders Al Lewis and Vik Khanna. Attention coffee drinkers: Here comes the judge. Coffee: It’s a perfectly...

Mar 12, 2018
1 min

How can employers help stem the opioid crisis?

The nation’s opioid crisis presents a broad range of healthcare challenges to employers. In addition to its direct impact on healthcare...

Jan 20, 2018
3 min

The Votes Are In: Employees Love Quizzify!

In positioning Quizzify as the "magic bullet" against the as-yet-unwritten rules coming out of AARP v. EEOC, we have implicitly assumed...

Jan 15, 2018
5 min

New Year, New Weight Loss Challenge? Think Again...

We’ve talked about the additional liability employers could assume if they don’t address the likely rules changes that will be generated...

Jan 9, 2018
5 min

Leading Vendors Announce Quizzify Partnerships to Satisfy Forthcoming Wellness Incentive Rules

Quizzify is announcing agreements today with four cutting-edge partners to serve as value-added resellers, and provide them with a “safe...

Jan 9, 2018
2 min

The Wellness Ruling, In Depth

The following is an excerpt from Surprising Supreme Court Decision May Disallow Most Wellness Incentives in last week’s Employee Benefit...

Jan 3, 2018
2 min

Don’t Panic over the New Wellness Ruling: Quizzify Has Your Back

The New Ruling While most of us were enjoying our year-end downtime, a federal court ruled that incentivized wellness programs requiring...

Dec 18, 2017
3 min

Heart Stents Don't Work?

Intuitively, heart stents make sense. If you’ve got occasional chest pain due to reduced blood flow to your heart, having a stent—a thin...

Nov 21, 2017
3 min

Quizzify's Health Literacy Matrix

We recently announced our revolutionary Health Risk Assessment (HRA), which brings an old tool into a new era. Our HRA design: Addresses...