NEBGH's guide can also help employers determine which digital features are most important in addressing the specific challenges with workplace diabetes programs, and serve as a starting point for matching solutions.
The Northeast Business Group on Health on Tuesday released a guide that aims to help employers evaluate the various digital tools available for preventing and managing diabetes among their employees.
The guide also pinpoints specific features, such as educational content, tracking components and social networking capabilities, and rates each tool based on how likely it is to encourage engagement among employees, according to the statement.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today a new, unprecedented agreement with the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) that will result in the first significant changes to the City’s employee health plans in over 30 years, marking major progress toward the City and MLC’s commitment to $3.4 billion in guaranteed health care savings through FY2018 and $1.3 billion recurring every year after. Working collaboratively with the City’s workforce, the administration undertook a data-driven approach to understanding and improving the employee health care system – resulting in significant, long sought-after changes that will benefit employee health and taxpayers alike.
On October 29, 2015, at the New York Stock Exchange, National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC Metro) and Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH) co-hosted the first-ever CEO Summit on Mental Health in the Workplace in collaboration with The Kennedy Forum, the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, and Partnership for Workplace Mental Health.