Healthcare Triage
Wellness Programs Don't Seem to Work as Advertised
The latest Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer sponsored health insurance focused on the fact that growth in premiums in 2013 was as low as it has ever been in the 16 years of the survey. And that's awesome. Health insurance...
Healthcare Triage
The Trump Budget and Meals on Wheels
When President Trump's White House revealed its proposed budget recently. A lot of things got cut, and much public outrage was expressed about cuts to funding for Meals on Wheels. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney portrayed the...
Healthcare Triage
Trump's Opioid Plan Largely Skips Prevention. Sad.
Trump's White House commission on opioid abuse recently released recommendations on dealing with the opioid epidemic. The report was notably short on ideas for preventing opioid abuse in the first place. That is not because there are no...
Healthcare Triage
Money Can't Buy You Weight Loss AND Vaccine Investment Strategy
Aaron's been traveling, so this will be more of a quick hits episode. This is Healthcare Triage News...and we're talking about whether workplace premium incentives lead to employee weight loss, whether behavioral interventions improve...
The Business Professor
Rotational Programs for Business Graduates
This Video Explains Rotational Programs for Business Graduates
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Mintz - Alternative Education
Jerry Mintz has been a leading voice in the alternative school movement for over 30 years. In addition to his seventeen years as a public and independent alternative school principal and teacher, he has also helped found more than fifty...
Healthcare Triage
Medicare for All and Administrative Costs
Political talk is getting more and more serious around Medicare for All in the United States. The argument, as usual comes down to costs. One of the advantages that proponents always bring up are the very low administrative costs of...
Healthcare Triage
Medicaid Report Cards Are Out, and Life Isn't About Grades
The Trump administration has released Medicaid report cards, which allow citizens and health care journalists to look at the results of Medicaid, state by state. The good news: our beloved Indiana is doing OK! The bad news, there's a lot...
Science360
NSF's merit review process determines which research has the greatest potential
NSF receives about 50,000 research proposals every year. The Foundation's mission is to promote the progress of science, but it's able to support only a fraction of the proposed research with its limited resources. This video briefly...
Mediacorp
Preventing Diabetes: Making Lifestyle Changes for the Whole Family
In this video, a teacher meets with a family to discuss their risk of diabetes and the importance of making healthy lifestyle changes. They explore the family's diet and habits, and seek advice from experts on how to improve their...
The Wall Street Journal
Amanda Cage on the Future of the American Labor Market
As employers in the trade sector offer new recruits higher pay, better benefits and signing-on bonuses, Amanda Cage, president and CEO of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, joins us to discuss the future of trade schools across...
Healthcare Triage
Needle Exchanges Help Curb Disease, but Legislators Don't Like Them
For decades, public health experts have known that syringe exchange programs reduce the spread of certain viral infections - like H.I.V.,hepatitis B and hepatitis C - by removing infected needles from circulation.
Healthcare Triage
Premiums for CHIP and Medicaid Lead to Lower Enrollment and Uninsured Kids
I have written before about the use of premiums in Medicaid programs across the United States. But a new study in Pediatrics collects the evidence, and it's worth a look. "Medicaid and CHIP Premiums and Access to Care: A Systematic...
Healthcare Triage
Ending Risk Adjustment Payments Will Further Undermine Obamacare
The Trump administration announced its intent to stop making risk adjustment payments to insurers on the ACA marketplaces.
The Wall Street Journal
Income for All
Andrew Yang, entrepreneur and a Democratic presidential candidate, has made universal basic income a central issue of his campaign. Hear his perspective on guaranteed income for every American, and what legislative challenges that policy...
Curated Video
Threats and Opportunities Created by Consumer Behavioral Changes
The video discusses the threats and opportunities that arise when there are changes in consumer behavior. It explains how consumer behavioral changes can impact the performance levels of businesses and create momentum in changes and...
The Business Professor
Management Information Systems Concentration
Management Information Systems Concentration
Science360
Picture Yourself Where Discoveries Begin - Business Operations
Rafael Cotto, Jeff Cunningham and Anita Browne Cordova provide an overview of many business operations roles supporting NSF discoveries.
Healthcare Triage
Preventive Care is Good, Even Though It's Not Saving Money
The idea that spending more on preventive care will reduce overall health care spending is widely believed and often promoted as a reason to support reform. Unfortunately, that doesn't pan out in real life.
Curated Video
RAM vs ROM: What Is The Difference Between Them?
If you’re not an alien reading this from a galaxy far, far away, then you have probably heard these terms countless times—RAM and ROM. That being said, RAM is more commonly encountered by the common person. Yet a fair amount of the...
The Wall Street Journal
The Art and Science of Well-Being
Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive Global, discusses the future of work and shares solutions that could help us cope with stress and anxiety at WSJ Tech Health.
The Wall Street Journal
The Future of Work, Part Two
Workers are facing another revolution. Are they, society and education systems ready to adapt to the huge changes ahead?
Healthcare Triage
What Should Future Childhood Programs Look Like?
In 2005, when the RAND Corporation wrote about early childhood interventions, they argued that the evidence to date showed those interventions improved outcomes and generated benefits that outweighed the costs. More than ten years later,...