U.S. Preventive Medicine Announces Strategic Development and Marketing Agreement with Dossia
Posted: March 22, 2012 at 3:09 am
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. and DALLAS, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc. today announced a strategic development and marketing agreement with Dossia Service Corporation, to offer The Prevention Plan - U.S. Preventive Medicine Inc.'s clinically-proven, cloud-based wellness platform to employees of some of the world's largest and most respected companies through the Dossia Health Management System.
The Dossia Health Management System automatically aggregates users' information from a variety of sources including physicians, hospitals, health plans, labs, pharmacies, integrated home health devices and partner organizations, and securely stores the data in one location that is private, consumer controlled, portable, secure and lifelong. Dossia then integrates this aggregated personal health information with best in class health and healthcare tools, as well as multiple user engagement components to offer a rich and personalized experience. The goal is to enable a more engaged, informed, empowered - and ultimately healthier - consumer.
With this agreement, employees of Dossia's member companies will be able to purchase an annual subscription to The Prevention Plan through the Dossia Marketplace with all results of the preventive medicine program being integrated into their Dossia Health Manager.
The Prevention Plan includes a comprehensive online Health Risk Appraisal, a basic lab panel including lipid profile and blood glucose, a web-enabled Prevention Plan, and a customized Report that highlights the consumer's top health risks and provides a personalized, step-by-step plan with activities and programs to reduce those risks.
Dossia members will also receive unlimited access to the Prevention Plan's online tools and resources, discounts to Prevention Partner services, a dynamic Prevention Score(SM) that increases as the member take steps to improve his or her health, and access to Macaw The Prevention Plan-enabled smart phone app that syncs with the Prevention Plan as well as other mobile apps and wireless devices to serve as a complete personal health monitor.
"U.S. Preventive Medicine shares Dossia's founding principles of empowering individuals to make smarter, more proactive decisions about their health and we are honored to be part of Dossia's growing network of best-of-class health solutions. Together, we can leverage the power of prevention to help reduce the burden of risk and illness to society," said Dr. Ron Loeppke, M.D., Vice Chairman of U.S. Preventive Medicine.
According to Mike Critelli, CEO of Dossia, "Having access to all of this personal health information in one place allows users to be more vigilant about the accuracy of their health records, more proactive about the daily lifestyle habits that impact their overall well-being, and better able to reduce health care costs from unnecessary usage and duplication of services. The Prevention Plan, with its clinically-proven preventive medicine platform will offer significant value to our Dossia Health Management Members."
About U.S. Preventive Medicine U.S. Preventive Medicine is leading a global preventive health movement focused on saving lives and money by keeping people healthy and better managing chronic conditions before they progress through innovative products like The Prevention Plan and Macaw mobile app. The company is accredited in wellness and health promotion by NCQA and disease management by URAC.
About Dossia Dossia is a non-profit organization consisting of several large U.S. employers who have united under a common vision: to empower their employees to make smarter more informed decisions about their healthcare. Through Dossia, they will leverage their combined influence to break down barriers to health information, which will help drive consumer-initiated change. The Dossia Founders group includes AT&T, Applied Materials, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, NantWorks, Pitney Bowes, sanofi-aventis, Vanguard Health Systems and Walmart. For more information, visit http://www.dossia.org.
Contacts: Tricia L. Ridgway-Kapustka, APR, CPRC U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc. (904) 562-6254; (904) 891-6320 Cell TKapustka@uspreventivemedicine.com
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Pilates joint replacement workshop set for April 1 in Avon
Posted: March 21, 2012 at 7:58 pm
AVON The Athletic Club at The Westin hosts a pilates joint replacement workshop with pilates master instructor Elizabeth Larkam on April 1.
Catering to clients who have had knee and hip replacements, this workshop will feature instruction in both classical and contemporary Pilates mat sequences, followed by a demonstration and supervised practice of studio sequences on the reformer, chair with split petal, trapeze table and barrels. It will also include a mat pilates class open to all joint replacement clients, pilates instructors and the general public.
The schedule for April 1 is as follows:
8 to 9 a.m. Mat pilates class open to everyone.
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Sequences for knee replacement patients.
1:30 to 4:30 p.m.: Sequences for hip replacement patients.
Larkam is internationally recognized as an innovator of mind-body movement techniques for therapeutic, performing arts and fitness settings. A Stanford educated gold certified pilates method alliance teacher, she has studied with many first generation pilates teachers, including Ron Fletcher, Eve Gentry, Carola Trier and Alan Herdman. Larkam is a guild-certified Feldenkrais practitioner, certified Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis instructor, Franklin Method teacher and OM Yoga instructor. She is completing a Masters of Intuitive Medicine at the Academy of Intuitive Medicine and has worked with many sports medicine patients, professional dancers, clinical and fitness professionals and soldiers at rehabilitation center worldwide.
The cost of the workshop is $250 before March 1 or $290 from March 1 through April 1. The pilates mat class is an additional $20 for attendees or $30 for the public. Workshop attendees can spend the night at The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek Mountain for a special discounted rate of $199 per night.
To register for the Pilates Joint Replacement Workshop, call 970-790-2051.
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Workout of the week: Mommy and Me Yoga
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Yoga with Yaga, Dance Dimensions, 638 Main St., Studio 1, Longmont, 303-818-9883, yogawithyaga.com
Instructor: Yaga Richter, a Longmont mother, who has been teaching yoga for about a year. She has basic yoga teacher training from Core Power in Boulder and was trained in prenatal and Mommy and Me yoga at Yo Mama Yoga in Boulder.
Last summer, she taught Yoga for Moms outside in the park near a playground, where older kids could play (and were watched by a designated babysitter).
Richter, who was born in Poland, plans to move her current class outside in June or so, when it warms up. Specific location to be determined. This fall, she hopes to move into the new Family Garden building, scheduled to open in Longmont in May. The Family Garden will be a nonprofit prenatal and parent support facility, offering childbirth education, nursing groups and other classes.
What is the workout? A yoga class for moms and their children of any age (typically from about 6 weeks old to 5 years). Class focuses on restoring the body after pregnancy, strengthening the core and glutes, opening the shoulders, improving strength, posture and flexibility and helping moms find their "inner calm." Part of the class typically focuses on poses for the moms, and another part involves activity for the kids.
"It's all done in a safe manner," Richter says, keeping in mind common postpartum challenges, such as the diastasis recti (an abdominal separation common after pregnancy).
Richter started the Mommy and Me class in late February because she didn't know of any other yoga classes focused on moms and kids in Longmont.
She says her classes fall in between challenging Core Power classes and slower, more restorative and socially focused "mommy and me" yoga classes.
Class starts with a short check-in, when moms introduce themselves and can share challenges and advice, but the class is designed to be a workout, not a social hour. If the kids cooperate, a class typically runs like this: warm-up, basic sun salutations, standing poses, core work, floor strengthening poses and gentle stretches. Sometimes Richter reads to the kids or plays with them at the end so the moms can relax while lying on their backs in the shavasana pose.
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Christian yoga: Trading 'om' for 'amen'
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Holy Yoga combines worship with yoga postures.
By Kristin Kalning
Jessica Heller liked what power yoga did for her body. But she loves what Holy Yoga does for her body and spirit.
Heller, 29, found the Christian-based yoga practice when she moved back to her native Phoenix from Denver. To her, the environment was more inviting, and more like a community than at a regular yoga class. And, it brought in a spiritual element that aligned with my personal belief system and resonated so much more deeply, she said.
Millions of Americans do yoga for its well-known mental and physical benefits. But some devout Christians are uncomfortable with yogas Eastern roots, and its association with Hinduism. Holy Yoga, and other Christ-centered practices such as Yoga for Christians, Scripture Yoga and Praise Moves offer the advantages of yoga, without all the "om"-ing.
We can absolutely service the people who are afraid of yoga because they thought yoga was incompatible with Christ, said Brooke Boon, founder of Holy Yoga. An avid yogi since 1998, Boon stopped practicing when she first came to her faith. But then she began spending alone time with the Lord, on my mat, and it totally awakened my practice. And in 2003, Holy Yoga was born.
Classes begin with a Bible scripture that forms the theme for the class. The poses are the same ones youd see in a secular yoga class, though instructors sometimes opt not to use the Sanskrit names. Chaturanga becomes high-to-low push-up, and Savasana is "corpse pose."
Holy Yoga classes are, according to Boon and Heller, as good or better than any class youd find in a studio. Even world class yogis will say this is amazing yoga, said Boon. And its popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, with 400 instructors in 43 states and 10 countries.
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Komets' assistant battling for next big chance
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Gary Graham can't afford to be shy. Throughout his life as a North Side student, a hockey player, a fireworks salesman, mortgage broker and coach, Graham has always had to sell people on what he could do as opposed to what they thought he couldn't do. And then he always had to keep proving it as he kept trying to climb levels.
Fewer than a dozen hockey players from Indiana have played at the AA or AAA minor league level and even fewer have become successful coaches. Graham missed making it as a player but is convinced he can make it as a coach. All he wants is a chance to convince everyone else.
The 1997 North Side graduate has been the Komets' assistant coach for four seasons, and if he makes it to a head coaching job someday, his story will be legendary because his chances truly started from almost nothing. A defenseman, Graham was a good player by Indiana standards, and managed to play a year-and-a-half of junior hockey before his playing career hit the ceiling.
He understood he was only going to advance so far as a player in part because he didn't start playing until age 12. His playing days had fizzled but not his passion.
``It's funny how you get into coaching,'' he said. ``I was always the guy who was leading, either as captain or as the class president at North Side or owning my own business for 10 years. Coaching seemed a natural to me.''
After coming home and going to Ball State, he started coaching the Snider club team and led the Panthers to the Class AA state title game. The next year they won the city championship.
Then Graham worked as an assistant coach with a junior team in Indianapolis that finished one win a way from advancing to the national tournament. Following that, Graham returned to North Side where he coached the Redskins' club team, taking a squad that finished last the previous season to the city title.
While working in his fireworks business during the off-season, Graham became friends with Komets defenseman Guy Dupuis. During his part-time job, Dupuis would sell Graham advertising signs and talk about hockey.
``Guy knew my passion for coaching, and one day after they won the triple overtime game against Port Huron (in 2008), I told him I really needed to take this to the next level,'' Graham said. ``Because I didn't have a playing career, I knew I had to have somebody help get me into it. I asked Guy, `What do you think about getting me in front of Al Sims?' He said he could do that.''
Graham figured if he was lucky, he might get a few drills he could use from Sims or a chance to observe training camp. The Komets coach, Dupuis and Graham met one summer night on Chipoltle's patio, with Sims quizzing Graham on hockey philosophy and systems. Sims sensed Graham's passion right away.
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