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Green Circle Health Announces West Cancer Center as Inaugural GCH Platform Client

- Platform strengthens wellness program for more than 500 employees at Mid-South's most advanced medical care center -

MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 02, 2015 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that West Cancer Center, the Mid-South's premier provider of cancer care for more than 34 years, implemented its online patient-to-provider communications gateway, the GCH Platform, across its entire clinic to strengthen the wellness program for its more than 500 employees.

Functioning as an added layer to existing systems, the GCH Platform merges with existing human resources files and, leveraging a patent-pending workflow that facilitates the collaborative sharing of data, maximizes the accuracy of score monitoring for West Cancer Center employees. In addition, West Cancer Center hopes the GCH Platform will improve participation in its rewards-based wellness program. By increasing the overall health and productivity of its workforce, West Cancer Center reduces the cost of insurance and lost productivity due to absenteeism, which costs employers $225.8 billion annually in the United States ($1,685 per employee) according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"Embracing a more collaborative relationship between medical experts and patients is the future of health care and an approach that aligns with our mission to provide the most advanced care available," said Erich Mounce, CEO of West Cancer Center. "The GCH Platform impacts our entire organization because it provides our associates with a powerful tool that creates an ongoing culture of employee wellness and will lead to a reduction in overall healthcare expenses. This is another step-in investing in the health of our physicians, employees, and patients, which are all equally critical to our overall success."

"The GCH Platform provides employees with a greater amount of control in the exchange of medical information and allows employers to create a more comprehensive and unified wellness program with greater incentives," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO, and founder of GCH. "As a cutting-edge cancer research center focused on revolutionizing healthcare standards, West Cancer Center is constantly optimizing its procedures and practices. Use of the platform emphasizes its strong commitment to individualized patient care and reinforces its role as a trusted medical technology leader within the community."

The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act; it also supports every stage of Meaningful Use.

About West Cancer Center
West Cancer Center delivers the best comprehensive cancer treatment in the Mid-South, delivering a complete continuum of care to over 30,000 individuals annually. A true leader in cancer research, West Cancer Center has a long-standing commitment to providing patients access to clinical trials which includes Phase I through Phase III studies. Building on the 35-year legacy of West Clinic, West Cancer Center continues to provide comprehensive, compassionate care to the Mid-South area. This commitment is strengthened through a robust partnership with Methodist Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. In 2014, West Cancer Center established The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research, a 501(c)3 dedicated to the research and development of novel cancer treatments and therapies. For more information, please visit: www.westcancercenter.com.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is dedicated to using innovative technologies to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Its GCH Platform is a patient-to-provider communications gateway with remote monitoring that facilitates the exchange of medical data in real-time, ensuring that patients receive timely care while eliminating unnecessary hospital visits or delayed treatment. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com.

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Green Circle Health Unveils Ground breaking Platform to Provide Unparalleled Access to Health Records and Improve Patient-to-Provider Communication

- Proven entrepreneurial innovator enters healthcare industry to bridge gap between medical services and information technology -

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., March 31, 2015 - Green Circle Health (GCH) today announced the availability of its GCH Platform, an online patient-to-provider communications gateway that enables the real-time exchange of patient vitals and health records among physicians, patients, family members, and insurers. An industry-first, the GCH Platform leverages a patent-pending workflow to facilitate the collaborative sharing of data and enhance health care providers' ability to proactively monitor, diagnose and treat medical conditions. GCH is focused on using innovative technology to lower costs, increase efficiency and improve the quality of healthcare.

In the traditional healthcare ecosystem, patient data is typically gathered over a period of time by healthcare providers and reviewed during scheduled appointments. As a result, treatment is only implemented after medical issues have developed or worsened between a physician or hospital visits. "The provider-driven healthcare industry is experiencing a major paradigm shift in which patient involvement is significantly increasing," said Sanjay Parikh, M.D., Medical Director for Pediatric Cardiology and Children's Health Center at St. Vincent Children's Hospital and chief medical officer of GCH. "The GCH Platform is the missing link in the industry's evolution from provider-driven to a shared endeavor between patients and providers."

The GCH Platform maintains, monitors and transmits patient health information in real time to allow healthcare providers to deliver cost-effective treatment on an as-needed basis. The platform features advanced group monitoring to improve population health and increase efficiencies for clinical trials. In addition, insurers and employers can now monitor health behavior and incentivize lifestyle changes, reducing healthcare costs.

"The current electronic health records and patient portals create too many silos of patient health records. There is no effective way for patients to share information with healthcare providers. There is no platform that makes patient-generated vital data actionable. This limits the patients' participation in their wellbeing," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of GCH. "It is our goal to bring patients and families in the center of the healthcare continuum. The GCH Platform marks a new beginning for healthcare providers, insurers, public health agencies and employers interested in improving the health of their patients, employees, and communities while lowering the cost of healthcare."

The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act; it also supports every stage of Meaningful Use.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is dedicated to using innovative technologies to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Its GCH Platform is a patient-to-provider communications gateway with remote monitoring that facilitates the exchange of medical data in real-time, ensuring that patients receive timely care while eliminating unnecessary hospital visits or delayed treatment. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com.

Strengthening the Case for Primary Care

Medical Home News, July 2015

Recent legislative initiatives and the introduction of new incentives via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are mandating new approaches to primary care. The impact of the ACA has been both immediate and sizeable, with nearly 15 million additionally insured U.S. citizens now seeking healthcare services.

This sudden influx is driving the need for more primary care providers (PCPs) as a more cost-effective alternative to specialists and emergency room visits. The reality, however, is that there are simply fewer doctors practicing primary care today because it is typically less lucrative (Medscape's most recent annual physician compensation survey reports that PCPs make 45 percent less than specialists).

Since there is a greater influx of patients into PCP practices, PCPs will be required to participate in efforts geared towards remote health monitoring, coordination of care and population health. There is a growing need for tools that can significantly improve the efficiency and productivity of PCPs, without sacrificing quality and level of healthcare.

Read more at Medical Home News July 2015 edition

Wellness Programs Beginning to Pay Off

Mississippi Medical News, Jan 06, 2016, by Dinesh Sheth

Current wellness programs have two primary, interrelated goals: to save employers' money and to keep employees and their families healthy. These programs have matured over time and are very similar to each other.

For employers, having something in place is better than having nothing. While today's programs have made some progress in terms of participation, there is still an opportunity to increase employee engagement and improve the overall results. Wellness programs focus on early detection through testing for medical conditions, as well as behavioral changes to improve health. To change behaviors, promote healthier lifestyles and facilitate more effective management of medical conditions, we need to change the existing wellness model from one of open-ended occasional contact with a wellness coordinator to a closed-loop feedback system that hinges on constant collaborative feedback and ongoing remote monitoring between employees and their families. The resulting ROI from this new approach to wellness programs would be an order of magnitude better than current levels, which are hovering between $1 and $3 for every dollar invested (depending on who you ask).

Read more at http://www.mississippimedicalnews.com/business/article/20359506/wellness-programs-beginning-to-pay-off

Healthcare looks to future in cloud computing

Healthcare Dive, October 22, 2015, by Heather Caspi

Healthcare data are entering a new era with the mass adoption of EHRs, the harnessing of big data, the rise of genomics, personalized medicine, and more. To manage all that data, hospitals and other healthcare entities will increasingly be looking to new solutions involving the cloud, numerous tech experts tell Healthcare Dive, and are increasingly ready to move past the regulatory and security concerns that have previously held healthcare back.

The research appears to back those ideas up; a report by MarketsandMarkets predicts the healthcare cloud computing market will grow from $3.73 billion in 2015 to $9.48 billion by 2020.

It's not only the need for data storage driving the move, but pushes to advance interoperability, payment reform, mobile data access, and security, says Missy Krasner, Managing Director for Healthcare & Life Sciences of Box, a cloud storage and collaboration company working with institutions including the Henry Ford Health System, Beaumont Health System, and Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions. Krasner previously served as a founding member of Google Health and was a senior advisor to the first National Coordinator for Health IT at the ONC.

"Now because healthcare is so in need of better interoperability and better connections, they need to figure out a better way to communicate outside of their firewalls with all the people they do business with every single day, and that's really hard to do if your data are locked on-prem in servers," Krasner says.

Hospitals and payers have historically been slower to the cloud than other industries, but "in the last five years there's been a massive move," she says, noting that according to MarketsandMarkets, there has been growth from about 4% of the healthcare industry doing some kind of cloud computing to a prediction of 20% by 2017. "There's been a very large year-over-year adoption," she says.

Why now?
"It's a data explosion," Krasner says, arguing there's no way healthcare entities can continue, from an infrastructure standpoint, to house all their data onsite with their own servers because of the expense and the lockdown on the data. "If it's all in separate enterprise silos such as EHRs, billing and registration systems, it's difficult to do an analysis," she says. "Doing it in the cloud allows for one platform and one security model, and immediate access to start doing things with the data."

Read more at http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/healthcare-looks-to-future-in-cloud-computing/407746/

Physicians Have an Influential Role in Driving Wearables Adoption

HIStalk Practice, July 29, 2015, by Dinesh Sheth

Though wearable devices that track personal activity have dominated the consumer electronics market in recent years, one research report from Endeavor Partners indicates that nearly one-third of fitness trackers are abandoned within just six months. For providers, these wearables have advanced from counting steps to measuring heart rates and other physiological parameters, while also presenting one of the most cost-effective methods for ongoing monitoring of health data. Despite consumer popularity, adoption of home-based health monitoring and fitness devices and the use of such data among physicians remains low.

Although the payments for such services are typically not covered by payers, the economics of healthcare services are changing in the shift toward pay for performance. In addition, several new legislative initiatives and incentives - targeted at reducing the cost of treatment and improving outcomes - will pave a dynamic way for patient-provider interaction. The expanded availability of healthcare to millions of Americans through the Affordable Care Act increased costs, and the healthcare industry is prioritizing self-improvement to boost the overall efficiency and productivity in the evolving model. To this end, it is critical that physicians support the adoption of new devices and monitoring technologies to help patients develop healthy lifestyles and ensure long-term success.

Engagement is a Two-Way Street
The fact remains that even today's high-tech healthcare facilities do not provide a unified view of patient data. Instead, medical records are typically spread across multiple systems and locations, and patients are not engaged in using health records to improve their own health. This can make a truly collaborative effort among physicians, care providers, patients, and family members impossible.

Read more at http://www.histalkpractice.com/2015/07/29/readers-write-physicians-have-an-influential-role-in-driving-wearables-adoption/

Can mHealth Be Deployed by Health Systems Across the Care Continuum?

Healthcare Innovation News, May 2015

There are two primary challenges slowing mHealth's deployment across the care continuum: the technical challenge of interoperability and the human challenge of adopting a new workflow. However, innovations that provide a layered approach with incremental changes to existing technologies have a higher potential for success in this environment

In order to improve the health of the population, mobile devices for patients and providers must be leveraged to extend the care beyond a clinical environment. These devices are "always on," providing a constant channel of communication and engagement with patients, family members, caregivers and healthcare providers, as well as a stronger method of coordinating services.

Likewise, improving outcomes within a hospital require leveraging mobile devices to reduce errors and provide a better channel for transporting and sharing data and information. These same devices can be used to improve staff productivity and monitor patients as they progress through the various stages of care. Check-in processes can be streamlined, minimizing wait times. Records and vital data can be made available on a patient's mobile device, while seamlessly flowing to providers' tablets and backend systems.

This accessibility allows providers to focus on understanding and communicating the information; they can prescribe medication with greater accuracy and efficiency or implement a plan with ongoing monitoring that provides the same level of care, whether at home or in the hospital.

Mobile technology impacts every aspect of healthcare delivery improves outcomes and lowers costs. The challenges, which are both cultural and system-wide, require bold leadership and imagination. The future is bright, but a path must be taken one step at a time. It is not going to be easy.

Read more at Healthcare Innovation News May 2015 edition.

Half-baked ideas at HIMSS 2015 that could become future healthcare game-changers

MedCity News, April 16, 2015, by Chris Seper

Many of the big announcements at HIMSS conferences are bow-wrapped products ready to hit the market: the IBM blockbuster is a prime example. But what's more intriguing are the many companies, big and small, rolling out brand new ideas that are taking their first swing as solutions to the big problems in healthcare.

These offerings are often more rough drafts than finished products. For these companies, HIMSS, instead of a place to close deals, becomes the launching pad for these concepts that will be adjusted, retooled, copied by others and re-launched until they become something healthcare can really use to become better, faster and cheaper.

I fell in love with a few of these concepts walking the show floor. Here are some of my favorite half-baked ideas from HIMSS15.

GCH Platform
Green Circle Health's GCH Platform is the definition of the wonderful half-baked ideas at HIMSS: a dynamic, imagination-capturing yet flawed attempt to deliver a lasting personal health record. Yet you can truly see people carrying a more polished GCH Platform through their lives like their 401(k) or e-mail addresses.

The platform accepts data as is. It will, preferably, digest health records and provide analytics. It also ingests information from wearables. But it will also accept PDFs and image files like jpg and store those, too. What matters is having the information gathered together.

GCH is also elegant in the way it connects family members to view one another's records, while also providing a nice interface for practitioners and other caregivers.

It still requires patients to do a bit too much typing, though. It needs to adopt a Delectable approach to basic health data: let patients take pictures of their Walgreens blood-pressure results, for example, and - poof! - translate that information into GCH. There's also the question of how to let this snazzy record live beyond any employer, payer or provider. In concept, an employer would pay no more than $25 per year per family to provide the service. Would a family carry on that cost? Or could they get it for free?

But you know this product has merit because if you talk with the Green Circle's founder you find yourself having yes-and conversations and exploring how this could work instead of why it won't.

"We need to get out of Apple Newton and get to the iPod stage," said Dinesh Sheth, a healthcare outsider who is CEO and founder of GCH.

Read more at http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/half-baked-ideas-himss-real-shot-changing-healthcare-better/

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Green Circle Health Selected as Semi-Finalist in Mayo Clinic's Inaugural THINK BIG Challenge

- Company named among top 12 from more than 130 applicants nationwide -

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., Sept. 29, 2015 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that it was selected as one of twelve semi-finalist entrepreneurial health care firms for Mayo Clinic's inaugural THINK BIG Challenge, which received more than 130 applicants from across the country.

Sponsored by Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI), Mayo Clinic Ventures and AVIA Health Innovations, the THINK BIG Challenge is a national competition offering awards totaling $100,000 for entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to transform the future of health and healthcare. Submissions were accepted for two categories, "Got Health?," which focuses on facilitating ongoing healthy lifestyle maintenance and risk factor monitoring, and "I Am Not My Disease," which addresses access to health data, health literacy and behavior modification. Semi-finalists, finalists and winners of the THINK BIG Challenge will be recognized at Mayo Clinic CFI's Transform 2015 conference on Oct. 1 in Rochester, Minn.

"By promoting and embracing innovation, the Mayo Clinic's THINK BIG Challenge plays an important role in driving fundamental changes to the healthcare industry," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of GCH. "To be named among the top companies is an honor and we look forward to the impact of our collective efforts to improve the access and quality of health for millions of people."

GCH submitted its GCH Platform, which is an online communications gateway that enables the real-time, collaborative electronic exchange of patient vitals and health records among physicians, patients, insurers and employers to optimize the diagnosis and proactive treatment of medical conditions. Leveraging advanced workflow processing and combining functionalities of remote monitoring and telehealth, the GCH Platform streamlines treatment and engagement, reducing healthcare costs and improving quality and outcomes. The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and also supports every stage of Meaningful Use.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is dedicated to using innovative technologies to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Its GCH Platform is a patient-to-provider communications gateway with remote monitoring that facilitates the exchange of medical data in real-time, ensuring that patients receive timely care while eliminating unnecessary hospital visits or delayed treatment. The GCH Platform also provides employers with next-generation wellness programs to attract and retain employees, while improving their health and lowering healthcare costs. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com.

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Green Circle Health Appoints New CTO to Strengthen GCH Platform's Advanced Workflow Processing

- IT industry expert brings 20 years of engineering, business analytics, and intelligence expertise -

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., Oct. 1, 2015 - Green Circle Health (GCH), a medical services technology platform provider, announced Bysakh Bhasi as its new chief technology officer to oversee the development of the company's online communications gateway, the GCH Platform, and its patent-pending workflow processing capabilities to optimize the exchange of static and dynamic health data.

Bhasi brings two decades of specialized experience in business intelligence, analytics, enterprise security and mobility and has served as a senior leader and manager at several multinational organizations, as well as start-ups. Most recently, he was managing director and general manager of D+H Solutions Private Limited, where he over saw the company's operations in India and grew its business from 25 employees to more than 350 within five years. Prior to D+H Solutions, he served as founder and CEO of SRC Software, which was later acquired by a leading U.S.-based technology company.

Bhasi served as chief technology officer at uMonitor (later acquired by Harland Financial Solutions), where he was the architect of one of the first online account and information aggregation services in the market. He was also previously a software engineer for FedEx and Siemens Public Communication Networks in Bangalore, India.

"Bysakh's extensive technical expertise with large-scale platforms, leadership experience and ability to foster innovation that empowers large and small organizations makes him the perfect candidate to lead the continued development of our GCH Platform and its ability to provide millions of users with a unique user experience," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of GCH. "Leveraging his unparalleled skill set, we will change the paradigm of healthcare from fee-for-service to fee-for-outcome by facilitating a greater collaboration of health data between patients and providers."

The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act; it also supports every stage of Meaningful Use.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is dedicated to using innovative technologies to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Its GCH Platform is a patient-to-provider communications gateway with remote monitoring that facilitates the exchange of medical data in real-time, ensuring that patients receive timely care while eliminating unnecessary hospital visits or delayed treatment. The GCH Platform also provides employers with next-generation wellness programs to attract and retain employees, while improving their health and lowering healthcare costs. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com.

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Green Circle Health Announces Availability of Care Programs to Support Chronic Disease and Wellness Management

-GCH Platform release 2.0 combines remote monitoring with treatment protocol to facilitate responsible health between individuals and providers-

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 2, 2016 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced the availability of 10 care programs on its online patient-to-provider communications gateway, the GCH Platform, strengthening chronic disease and wellness program management by incorporating treatment plans and physician-recommended protocols with the real-time exchange of vitals and health records.

The care programs leverage Bluetooth technology to gather and monitor daily vital signs from activity trackers and personal medical devices, while also recording input directly from the user about their daily conditions. As data is entered, the GCH Platform analyzes the information against pre-set, user-specific care parameters and generates reminders for appointments and medications for patients and care givers. The GCH Platform can recommend remedial actions and also route alerts to healthcare providers, who can monitor the individual's progress and provide timely intervention. The standard care programs encompass:

Insurers and employers can also use the GCH Platform to create custom care programs for individuals and employees to monitor vital signs and activity, track specified goals and offer performance-based rewards to incentivize behavioral changes and strengthen various wellness programs.

"Care programs are increasingly used to optimize management and outcomes in chronic conditions such as diabetes, obesity and CHF, "said Sanjay Parikh, M.D., medical director for Pediatric Cardiology and Children's Health Center at St. Vincent Children's Hospital, Indianapolis and chief medical officer of GCH. "We envision GCH as a next-generation wellness and disease management platform that uses remote monitoring with mobile health to transform the delivery of care for such chronic conditions. The care programs provided through the GCH Platform assist and empower individuals, physicians and wellness coaches to take active ownership in the management of health, which is essential to achieving lifelong behavioral change and driving down healthcare costs."

The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act; it also supports every stage of Meaningful Use.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is dedicated to using innovative technologies to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Its GCH Platform is a patient-to-provider communications gateway with remote monitoring that facilitates the exchange of medical data in real-time, ensuring that patients receive timely care while eliminating unnecessary hospital visits or delayed treatment. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

HOW TO HELP EMPLOYERS MAXIMIZE THEIR WELLNESS PLAN ROI

California Broker Magazine, February 2016, by Dinesh Sheth

Workplace wellness programs exist for two key reasons: to save employers money while keeping employees and their families healthy. Employers are always seeking to realize the return-on-investment of their wellness programs - from human resources directors up to C-level leadership. Yet it continues to be a challenge. This is because employers often implement a program without a strategy to drive engagement. Also, spending happens now while benefits come later. By shifting how companies implement their wellness programs, employers could multiply the ROI, which hovers from $1 to $3 for every dollar invested in wellness.

Read more at https://issuu.com/californiabrokermagazine/docs/california_broker_february3_2016?e=16574335/33325580

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Green Circle Health and BodiMetrics Partner to Better Manage Chronic Conditions and Improve Wellness Programs

- Technology providers join forces to streamline the collection and analysis of health vitals -

PENSACOLA BEACH, FLA., AND MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF., MARCH 15, 2016 - Green Circle Health (GCH) and BodiMetrics announced a strategic partnership to streamline the collection and analysis of patients' and individuals' health vitals, improving the management of chronic conditions, enhancing the quality of wellness programs and optimizing clinical trials and research.

Through the partnership, GCH integrates its patient-to-provider communications gateway, the GCH Platform, with BodiMetrics(tm) Checkme Pro Health Monitor (an FDA Class II device) and the BodiMetrics Performance Monitor, which capture ECG, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, blood oxygenation, temperature and other vital health metrics.

Leveraging remote diagnostics and monitoring, BodiMetrics' devices track an individual's vitals, which are automatically uploaded to the GCH Platform and aggregated with other device-generated metrics, such as blood glucose, weight and physical activities. The information is analyzed and used to help patients, families, providers and wellness coaches set health goals, foster ongoing wellness by generating alerts and reminders and improve adherence to treatment protocols in self-managed and third-party assisted care programs, such as:

"We believe that everyone should be empowered to take control of their own wellness and see that as a primary driver to a better quality of life, lowering healthcare costs and improving the standard of care," said Neil Friedman, COO of BodiMetrics. "Partnering with an innovator like Green Circle Health is a critical next step in extending our industry-first portable and easy-to-use multi-parameter devices' capabilities to extend health and wellness tracking to consumers, patients, caregivers and clinicians through a common shared platform."

"By integrating the GCH Platform and BodiMetrics' most advanced devices, we are bringing remote care plan management to patients and providers and promoting responsible health," said Dinesh Sheth, founder and, CEO of Green Circle Health.

The BodiMetrics Performance Monitor is available for purchase from BodiMetrics.com, Amazon.com, Bloomingdales and other select retailers. The Checkme Pro Health Monitor is available only by prescription at BodiMetrics.com.

About BodiMetrics
BodiMetrics is dedicated to empowering consumers with products, services, and solutions that will allow them to take charge of their healthcare, lower overall cost and improve their wellbeing. Our products are tested by independent third party labs to clinical standards as well, where indicated, approved by the FDA. For more information, visit www.bodimetrics.com and follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is dedicated to using innovative technologies to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Leveraging remote monitoring, its GCH Platform facilitates the exchange of medical data in real-time, ensuring that patients and families follow wellness and chronic condition care plans while eliminating unnecessary hospital visits or delayed treatment. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Year-Over-Year In Healthcare: What Have We Learned?

Health IT Outcomes, March 23, 2016, by Dinesh Sheth

What has changed in healthcare within the past year? While preparing for and winding down from HIMSS16, I asked myself that very question. The industry's most important event is not only a gathering of the leading organizations, powerful minds, and emerging technologies, it is also an opportunity for us to benchmark our progress and see where we are compared to where we were. The changes that have occurred since 2015 highlight some significant transformations in the structure and focus of the industry. They also provide a glimpse into areas where we fell short and where we succeeded.

Read more at Year-over-Year in Healthcare: What Have We Learned?

What Lessons Will CMS Apply to CPC+ Initiative?

Physicians Practice, May 23, 2016, by David Raths

CMS has long maintained that primary care is central to the transformation it is seeking to bring to the nation's health system. Showing the strength of that conviction, in April the agency announced its largest-ever investment in advanced primary care to date: the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model. The ambitious program builds on CMS' original CPC initiative, which began in 2012 and is scheduled to end later this year.

Read more at What Lessons Will CMS Apply to CPC+ Initiative?

Collaboration with Technology Determines Success in Comprehensive Primary Care Plus+

Healthcare Innovation News, June 2016, by Dinesh Sheth

The Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative took the bull by the horns in addressing care beyond office hours, management of chronic diseases and personalized care with the intention of strengthening primary care, improving care for chronic conditions and lowering overall costs.

Read more at Healthcare Innovation News May 2015 edition.

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Green Circle Health Announced Among Winners of ONC's Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge

- The Company recognized for increasing consumer health data accessibility -

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. July 25, 2016 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that it was recognized as a Phase 1 winner in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge.

The company's GCH Platform, which is a health and wellness platform that engages families and care providers, was chosen as one of the best solutions that address a need that many consumers have today: the ability to easily and electronically access their health data from different health care providers using a variety of different health IT systems.

The Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge, along with the Provider User Experience Challenge, was announced in March by Dr. Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at ONC. Both challenges were developed to foster private sector innovation to help make health information available in user-friendly formats to enable consumers and providers to easily and securely access and share electronic health information. Applicants were challenged to use the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard and open application programming interfaces (APIs), which are modern resources that make it easier to retrieve and share information superseding what currently exists in most Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

"It is exciting to see the level of innovation that is taking place in health IT today," said Dr. Vindell Washington, principal deputy national coordinator, announcing the Phase 1 winners. "The apps that these challenges will produce have the potential to spur real-world improvements for individuals and clinicians throughout the health system."

The Green Circle platform provides a comprehensive family health dashboard that covers the full Common Clinical Data Set and uses the FHIR to transfer patient information. It also incorporates patient-generated health data from wearables, sensors and other connected devices.

"ONC's challenge will accelerate the adoption of FHIR-based data interchange, enabling patients to get their data from the various EHR platforms that are used by their healthcare providers," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO, and founder of GCH. "Patients and families have waited too long to get useful data to generate actionable intelligence. We appreciate ONC pushing to bring down the barriers for innovations to take place and families to get healthy."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH platform, a family EHR that manages health and wellness and lowers healthcare costs. The GCH platform facilitates remote monitoring, collection and distribution of medical records and coaching to eliminate unnecessary visits or delayed treatments. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Health Launches Care Management Program for Sickle Cell Anemia and Diabetes with a Major Health Insurer

- Remote monitoring technology to improve adherence to treatment protocol -

Pensacola Beach, FL., Oct. 19, 2016 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that one of the nation's largest health insurers has deployed its patient-to-provider communications gateway, the GCH Platform, to monitor key vitals and daily symptoms of members using its sickle cell anemia and diabetes care management programs. These year-long trials are intended to engage 150 patients in each care program track their participation, measure outcomes and then use the lessons learned to bring benefits to a larger population.

Leveraging the GCH Platform's flexible infrastructure, which allows physician-recommended treatment protocols to be deployed for chronic conditions, case managers will remotely monitor and record members' vitals, such as blood glucose level, weight, pain levels and daily activities. Case managers can also pose daily health questions to determine if patients are meeting the requirements of their respective care plan. If a member deviates from a specific range of responses or vitals, inbuilt algorithms and work flows will alert members, their families and case managers, who will then follow-up in real-time and address issues before the condition worsens. The GCH Platform is available on any phone, PC or tablet, anywhere and engages patients by providing reminders, coaching, educational literature and rewards to stay on-track and develop healthy behavior. The Platform also coordinates care management for families, encouraging and empowering all family members to play a more active role in the use of remote monitoring and other health services.

"Care management programs are frequently used by case managers to help patients manage chronic conditions such as diabetes and sickle cell. With real-time remote monitoring technology, our platform engages the provider's members in their own health outcome, improving the overall quality of life," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO, and founder of Green Circle Health. "The GCH Platform's user-friendly technology provides members with the tools needed to improve adherence to treatment protocol and since it leverages existing devices that patients are already using, the Platform removes the need to acquire additional technology. These factors, along with its integrated smart agent mean that the GCH Platform makes it easier than ever for people to manage their care and make necessary life style changes for improved outcomes."

The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other industry standards and was recently announced as a winner in an ONC Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the most flexible GCH infrastructure for employers and insurers to change the paradigm of healthcare. GCH Platform offers a family EHR to manage health and wellness and lower healthcare costs. The GCH Platform facilitates remote monitoring, collection and distribution of medical records and coaching to eliminate unnecessary visits or delayed treatments. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Health joins the BENEFITFOCUS ^® Ecosystem

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., Nov. 04, 2016 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced it has joined the BENEFITFOCUS ^® Ecosystem and will link its GCH Platform within the BENEFITFOCUS ^® Marketplace allowing employers to offer employees and their families an opportunity for greater control over their healthcare and wellbeing.

The Benefitfocus ^® Ecosystem enables partners to link their solutions with the BENEFITFOCUS ^® Platform using Benefitfocus standards. The ecosystem aims at linking the Benefitfocus Marketplace and its ecosystem of "best-in-class" partners.

The GCH Platform enables employers to configure and deploy personalized health and wellness programs based on a company's unique culture and overall goals. Leveraging a mobile-first approach with the industry's most innovative remote monitoring technology, the GCH Platform facilitates the self-management of chronic conditions and overall wellness, while also promoting both group and family health engagement. The GCH Platform enables employees to create comprehensive health profiles for family medical history, store medical records and update health vitals and conditions in real-time. Through the GCH Platform, employees can also seek coaching and further coordinate care to become responsible health-care consumers and better manage their family's health, wellness, and chronic disease treatment. Employers can then configure rewards programs to encourage employees to adopt healthier lifestyles and incentivize behavioral change.

The GCH Platform is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act(HIPAA) and other industry standards and was recently announced as a winner in an ONC Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge.

Benefitfocus provides a leading cloud-based benefits management platform that simplifies how organizations and individuals shop for, enroll in, manage and exchange benefits. Every day leading employers, insurance companies and the consumers they serve to rely on the Benefitfocus Platform to manage, scale and exchange benefits data seamlessly. In an increasingly complex benefits landscape, Benefitfocus brings order to chaos so employers and their employees have access to better information, make better decisions and lead better lives.

"It is essential in today's modern, technologically-driven society that employees have greater control over their medical information and the best available tools to create comprehensive personalized wellness programs coupled with results-driven incentives," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of Green Circle Health."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH Platform which allows employees and their families to store and share medical records, manage health and wellbeing and lower healthcare costs. The GCH platform facilitates remote monitoring and the coordination of care through personalized coaching to improve outcomes. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Empowering Employees To Empower Themselves: How to bridge the gap between patient and provider

HR.com, November 2016, by Dinesh Sheth

The power of healthcare information management for employees is greatly understated within both healthcare and human resources. While there is little doubt that employees value their health, there are also few meaningful tools or incentives available to encourage them to take control over their own outcomes.

Read more at HR.com's e-publication Employee Benefits and Wellness Excellence's November edition.

ONC announces winners of consumer and provider app challenges to improve health information access and use

HHS.gov, January 12, 2017

The second place and "connector" prizes, each with an award amount of $25,000, were won by Green Circle Health. This application uses FHIR® to import patient data into a platform integrating a comprehensive family health dashboard that includes personal and medical device data, remote monitoring, and reminders.

Read more at HHS.gov.

Florida-Based Health Care Tech Company Picks Indiana for Client Services Center

CARMEL, Ind. (Jan. 12, 2017) - Green Circle Health, a provider of health care management and wellness platforms designed to empower families to make healthier lifestyle decisions and improve outcomes, announced plans to locate its Client Services Center here, creating up to 125 new jobs by 2022.

"Green Circle Health had its choice of many states to locate its new Client Services Center, but it chose Indiana for a reason," said Governor Eric Holcomb. "Over the last decade, Indiana has built the most affordable, growth-oriented business climate in the country. As a result, tech-enabled health firms like Green Circle Health are thriving in Indiana, taking full advantage of Hoosiers' education, skills and drive for innovation. It's only fitting that Green Circle Health joins this growing industry here in Indiana, and we welcome them."

The Pensacola, Florida-based company will invest nearly $1 million to lease and furnish office space in Indiana over the next five years. The company opened an initial 1,000-square-foot office at 9640 Commerce Drive in Carmel on Jan. 1 and plans to expand its footprint as its Indiana team grows. Clinical professionals at the company's Client Services Center will provide remote health care and coaching for GCH Platform users anywhere in the U.S., helping improve the coordination of care and treatment of chronic disease and illness. Through the tracking and analysis of users' medical records and real-time health data, the GCH Platform is designed to help people use one platform to make informed decisions to lead healthier lives.

Green Circle Health, which currently employs 25 full-time associates at locations across the country, is now hiring for specialized positions, including a chief medical officer, a data analytics consultant, a consulting physician, a nutritionist, wellness coaches, nurses and medical staff. Interested applicants may apply by sending a resume to info@greencirclehealth.com.

"It is essential in today's modern, technologically-driven society that employees have greater control over their medical information and the best available support to become responsible consumers of health services," said Dinesh Sheth, chief executive officer and founder of Green Circle Health. "To expand our business operations into Indiana is a powerful step for us in increasing customer relations and bringing jobs to local communities. Carmel and the state of Indiana have a thriving ecosystem to support information and medical technology-driven companies like Green Circle Health."

Founded in 2013, Green Circle Health launched its new patient-to-provider communications gateway in early 2016, providing a web or mobile-based infrastructure for users to manage their treatment plans, track real-time health vitals and participate in customized health and wellness challenges. Primarily serving employers, insurers, managed care organizations and health systems, the company provides these services in order to encourage employees and their families to make meaningful lifestyle changes and lead healthier lives.

Green Circle Health recently secured a client with more than 80,000 employees, and in 2016 began offering its services to Medicaid recipients at a largely managed care provider. Green Circle Health was selected as a semifinalist for the Mayo Clinic's THINK BIG Challenge and won the Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge held by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in 2016.

"The city of Carmel is pleased to welcome Green Circle Health to a growing family of medical technology companies that have chosen to locate a part of their operations here in Carmel," said Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard. "Our low taxes, great public schools and many amenities such as outstanding parks, trails and cultural districts have helped create an attractive city in which to expand a successful company. We look forward to watching you grow and playing a key role in your future success."

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Simple Healthcare LLC (dba Green Circle Health) up to $1,000,000 in conditional tax credits and up to $131,250 in training grants based on the company's job creation plans. These incentives are performance-based, meaning until Hoosiers are hired, the company is not eligible to claim incentives. The city of Carmel supports the project.

Green Circle Health is the latest health care tech firm to announce its plans to expand in Indiana. In August, biopharmaceuticals and medical technologies consulting firm DK Pierce & Associates broke ground on the company's new headquarters in Zionsville, with plans to create 23 new high-wage jobs. TriMedx, a provider of health care technology management services, announced in November that it was expanding in Indianapolis, adding 108 new jobs.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH Platform which allows employees and their families to store and share medical records, manage health and wellbeing and lower health care costs. The GCH Platform facilitates remote monitoring and the coordination of care through personalized coaching to improve outcomes. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About IEDC
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) leads the state of Indiana's economic development efforts, helping businesses launch, grow and locate in the state. Governed by a 12-member board chaired by Governor Eric Holcomb, the IEDC manages many initiatives, including performance-based tax credits, workforce training grants, innovation and entrepreneurship resources, public infrastructure assistance, and talent attraction and retention efforts. For more information about the IEDC, visit www.iedc.in.gov.

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ONC Awards Green Circle Health Second Place in Phase 2 of Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge

- GCH also recognized as "Ultimate Connector" for the ability to integrate with the greatest number of unique systems using FHIR -

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. Jan. 18, 2017 - The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced Green Circle Health (GCH) as the second place winner in Phase 2 of its Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge. In addition, GCH was recognized as the "Ultimate Connector" for its ability to connect to the greatest number of unique health IT systems and received $50,000 in total prize money.

Announced last year, the Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge was developed to foster private sector innovation to make health information available in user-friendly formats and enable consumers and providers to easily and securely access and share electronic health information. In Phase 1, GCH's online patient-to-provider communications gateway, the GCH Platform, was recognized as one of the best solutions that allow consumers to easily and electronically access their health data from different health care providers using a variety of health IT systems.

Within the past year, GCH has made tremendous progress in achieving its goal of helping consumers improve health and wellbeing, using its next-generation apps that utilize the real-time exchange of patient vitals and health records among physicians, patients, family members and, insurers, including:

• Establishing a Client Services Center in Carmel, Ind. to provide care coordination, coaching, and remote monitoring for GCH users;
• Deploying the GCH Platform to offer a highly-customized health and wellness program with iOS, Android and web apps designed to build a culture of health and drive greater returns for a large retailer with over 80,0000 employees;
• Delivering the GCH Platform to offer chronic care management with remote monitoring and enhanced patient engagement for a large Medicaid Managed Care Organization; and
• Joining the BENEFITFOCUS® Ecosystem, linking the GCH Platform within the BENEFITFOCUS® Marketplace to allow employers to offer employees and their families greater control over their health and wellbeing.

"We are thrilled to recognize new tools that make it easier for individuals and clinicians to access health information and put it to use," said Dr. Vindell Washington, national coordinator for health information technology (IT). "These apps reflect the incredible progress that is possible as a result of the digital health infrastructure that the public and private sector have built together over the last eight years."

"As the healthcare industry continues to leverage its investment in digital infrastructure, healthcare IT providers like GCH have the unique opportunity to develop innovative methods of delivering consumer data to both patients and providers," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of GCH. "Patients and their families have waited too long for health information to be available in an easily understood and actionable format. We appreciate the ONC breaking down the barriers to innovation and encouraging the use of HL-7 FHIR standard-based open API to bring data from major EHR vendors and seamlessly deliver it into the hands of consumers."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH Platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employees and their families to store and share medical records, improve health and wellbeing and lower overall healthcare costs. Green Circle Health facilitates remote monitoring, coordination of care and life style changes through digital and live coaching to improve outcomes. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Intelligent Healthcare Association Announces 2017 Award Recipients

Industry Awards Recognize Leaders in Advanced Healthcare Technology Solutions

NEW YORK, February 13, 2017 - The Intelligent Health Association (IHA) announced today the recipients of the IHA 2017 Awards, both special recognition and competitive. Each year IHA recognizes an individual or institution that has demonstrated leadership in the digital health community. In 2017, the IHA Special Recognition Award recipient is Patrick Soon-Shiong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer for NantHealth, which offers a systems-based approach to personalized healthcare integrating novel diagnostics with large-scale, biometric and phenotypic data to track patient outcomes and deliver precision medicine. Dr. Soon-Shiong will receive his award Monday, February 20 at 11:20am at the IHA Pavilion, HIMSS17, Orlando, FL.

This year, IHA offered two competitive awards. The third award, the GRAND Award, is chosen from these two awardees.

• The 2017 IHA Improving Patient Care and Health Delivery award is being presented to Hamilton Health Sciences for reducing in-hospital cardiac and respiratory arrests using a novel mobile application. Hamilton Health Sciences is one of Canada's top five research hospitals and is currently conducting research in over 1,500 centers across 86 countries. With the help of the ThoughtWire service team, they were able to pilot a working solution that was up and running in eight weeks. The results: Critical Care Response Team consults decreased 17 percent; CPR with Code Blue calls were reduced by six percentage points.
• The 2017 Innovative Healthcare Award is being presented to Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, VA), specifically their Sentara Princess Anne Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), for eliminating alarm fatigue and giving staff critical and timely tools in addressing patients' needs. The wireless solution is a highly coordinated effort among staff and vendors including the Vocera Engage alarm management and clinical communication solution incorporated with a Real-Time Location System (RTLS), telecommunications, and patient monitors. The result was a 54percent reduction in duplicative patient monitoring alarms, a 94 percent increase in staff satisfaction as it relates to alarm management, and overall improved quality of care for patients. Pioneers at heart, Sentara Healthcare gained worldwide recognition when America's first in-vitro baby was born at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

The judges elected to recognize two nominations with Honorable Mentions.

• Pensacola Beach, Fla-based Green Circle Health impressed judges with its breadth of scope and clarity of purpose that will have a huge impact on consumer health and wellness in the coming years. Green Circle Health's GCH Platform allows users to store and track health data from hospitals and clinics as well as from their at-home devices. Revolutionizing how consumers use their health care data, Green Circle Health allows users to improve the treatment of chronic diseases and conditions which, according to the Centers for Disease Control, are among the most common, costly and preventable of all health problems.
• The Center for Music Therapy, Inc., based in Austin (TX), intrigued and beguiled the judges with its Movement Tracks Project. To address the leading movement disorder in the US with fall-safety concerns (Parkinson's Disease), the Center interfaces algorithm and methodologies to further develop sensory optimization strategies for pervasive use in smart, integrated, stationary and wearable biometric systems and devices for gait improvement.

Award recipients have been invited to participate in the Intelligent Health Association Awards ceremony at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS) 2017 conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida. The event is being held February 20, 2017, at 5:30pm at the Intelligent Health Pavilion's Leadership Theater. (Booth 8361)

The judges for the competitive awards are as follows: Georgia Tech associate vice president for research, faculty interaction, Gisele Bennett; President and CEO of Asset Insights Sylvanus Bent; Virginia-based cyber security consultant Deborah Cooper; University of California-San Francisco professor Donna Hudson; University of Wisconsin distinguished researcher Alfonso Gutierrez; and consultant and retired Lucent Technologies manager, John Walz.

The IHA annual awards identify and recognize the most compelling healthcare projects incorporating wireless technologies resulting in sustainable impact on the patient experience, safety and healthcare facility operations. Additionally, the IHA awards are intended to educate the healthcare delivery industry. For more information, please visit ihassociation.org/awards.

About the Intelligent Health Association
The Intelligent Health Association(IHA) is a not-for-profit, global organization founded to elevate awareness and to educate the life sciences community on the adoption of new technologies. Educationally focused, IHA is a vendor-neutral, technology and frequency agnostic association dedicated to promoting the use and adoption of auto-ID, NFC, RFID, RTLS, sensors and wireless technologies in the healthcare, assisted and independent living and nursing home industries. For more information, please visit: www.ihassociation.org.

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ACA reform update: What the latest bill means to employer advocates

HR DIVE, March 16, 2017, by Ryan Golden

Last week, Congressional Republicans released the latest draft of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), their much-anticipated healthcare reform bill, after weeks (and, in reality, years) of prognosticating about the fate of the Affordable Care Act.

Read more at HR Dive website

Wellness bill debate highlights privacy vs. results

Employee Benefits Advisor, March 28, 2017, by Bruce Shutan

While most eyes were glued to the American Health Care Act debate and ultimate withdrawal, another healthcare bill that seeks to resolve a long-standing public policy conundrum for workplace wellness programs is expected to gain its share of attention from benefits professionals.

Read more at Employee Benefits Advisor

Good Health Care Begets Organizational Wellness

SHRM's HR People + Strategy Blog, April 14, 2017, by Dinesh Sheth

2017 has so far been defined by a great amount of uncertainty for employers and employees alike. Since the election of the new presidential administration, experts across all industries offered their predictions on what the new administration's first focus would be. Now, within only three months of taking office, Congress has already attempted and failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with a new law titled the American Health Care Act (AHCA). For the health care industry, this is an effort which could have had far-reaching effects that are now left to departmental regulatory reform and priorities, but what will effect would it have had for employers and their employees nationwide?

Read more at SHRM's HR People + Strategy Blog

Health care reform: Don't wait for the politicians

Benefits Pro, May 16, 2017, by Dinesh Sheth

Business owners across all industries are facing uncertainty surrounding the status of current laws and regulations. A Republican majority in Congress and the new presidential administration have created a climate of de-regulation. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, depending on your view, U.S. employers of all sizes are currently facing a potentially major regulatory change with U.S. Republicans attempting to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with their own bill: the American Health Care Act (AHCA).

Read more at Benefits Pro

3 Ways to Create a Culture of Health and Wellness

SHRM's HR People + Strategy Blog, May 31, 2017, by Dinesh Sheth

Employees of all ages have the desire to stay healthy and avoid developing chronic conditions and expensive medical treatments. Yet, even though no one wants to get sick, most employees lack the knowledge and capability of managing their health and the health of their family. This inability has resulted in poor long-term health issues for employees and increased costs for employers as they try to improve health and productivity through ineffective and costly wellness programs, while also paying for expensive medical conditions that could have been avoided.

Read more at SHRM's HR People + Strategy Blog

3 Millennial-Friendly Approaches to HR Wellness Programs

SHRM's HR People + Strategy Blog, June 16, 2017, by Dinesh Sheth

Employers have long been pontificating about the impact that Millennials have on the workforce and what changes are necessary to accommodate them, but the time for discussion has passed. It's time for action. According to the PEW Research Center, during the last two years, Millennials have overtaken both Generation X and Baby Boomers as the largest demographic in America's workforce. This means that employers must be creating the healthy and productive work environment that’s been talked about for so long. From an HR perspective, this requires taking a close look at what benefits a company is providing and how those benefits fit into employee's lives.

Read more at SHRM's HR People + Strategy Blog

Five Lessons Health Systems Can Learn From Intuit

HFM MAGAZINE: AUGUST 2017, by DINESH SHETH

As health care's traditional business model evolves, there is no shortage of new players in the market, all eager to share their disruptive innovations aimed at wellness and population health management. These innovators seem to have willing allies in consumers, millions of whom are purchasing personal fitness trackers and home health devices, and small business owners who are working to reduce insurance costs by keeping employees healthy.

Read more at HFM MAGAZINE: AUGUST 2017

Variety is key to wellness program success

J. J. Keller & Associates, AUGUST 11 2017, by Terri Dougherty

Employers looking to support a healthy workforce should view wellness offerings as more of a buffet than a one-course meal. Serving limited options to participants is not likely to be a popular solution, notes the head of a national wellness platform provider.

"If you really want to build a culture of health and wellbeing, you need to have the majority of people take part in it," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO of Green Circle Health, a national wellness management service based in Pensacola Beach, Florida. "To get everyone to engage, there should be something for everyone."

Read more at LivingRight®: Health & Wellness Awareness Program

Green Circle Health Announces New National Director of Business Development to Manage Sales Efforts and Continued Company Growth

- Sales leader with over a decade of experience in business development and sales joins growing employee health and wellness program provider -

PENSACOLA BEACH, FLA. (PRWEB) AUGUST 24, 2017 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced Angela Hall as its new senior director of Business Development to support the company's business expansion efforts and promotion of its health and wellness technology, the GCH Platform. The GCH Platform allows employees and their families to manage their holistic wellbeing, including their physical, emotional and financial health, using a single app (SmartFHR™). Through GCH, employers can offer a branded benefits app for employees to manage their life-long family health records, participate in customized wellness challenges, coordinate chronic condition management and make meaningful lifestyle changes to improve outcomes and lower healthcare costs.

Hall brings over a decade of experience as a sales consultant and business development leader in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to GCH, she led national sales efforts at Jaymac Pharmaceuticals, where she managed a national territory and doubled sales for the privately owned company. In addition to leading sales efforts at Jaymac, Hall served as media manager overseeing content for two websites, developing marketing materials, writing press releases and managing its social media efforts. Her sales career also included roles such as lead sales representative and district sales mentor with pharmaceutical companies where she built and developed relationships with physicians and primary care experts.

"Strengthening sales performance is just one dimension of a company's overall success; it's also critical to align those efforts with other areas such as operations and communications strategy," said Hall. "I am thrilled to join Green Circle Health as we continue to build momentum towards becoming a prominent holistic wellbeing solutions provider. As a mother of two, it's easy for me to get behind the company's family-first prerogative."

"With Angela's years of sales experience in the healthcare industry, she brings invaluable expertise that will support our efforts to help organizations deploy next-generation health and wellness solutions to improve the physical, emotional and financial wellbeing of their employees and their families," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO, and founder of GCH. "Her track record in establishing relationships and strengthening overall business performance for companies makes Angela a valuable addition to our team in Pensacola area."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH Platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employees and their families to manage healthcare records, improve health and wellbeing and lower overall healthcare costs. Green Circle Health facilitates remote monitoring, coordination of care and life-style changes through digital and live coaching to improve outcomes. For more information, visit http://www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn

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Florida-based Health Technology Company Launches Sales and Operations Center in West Tennessee

Provider of HR benefits app that improves wellbeing for employees and their families expands to Memphis

MEMPHIS, TENN., SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 - Green Circle Health (GCH) a provider of health care management and employee wellness platforms designed to empower families to make healthy lifestyle decisions, is launching a Sales and Operations Center in Memphis. The location was selected due to its executive team's close ties with the local community, where it plans to create up to 100 new jobs by 2022.

Tom Dyer, vice chairman of Shelby County's Economic Development Growth Engine and EVP of GCH said "This new location brings GCH's founder Dinesh Sheth, who previously launched two successful local businesses - uMonitor, which was sold to a Fortune 500 company, and Software Resource Consultants, a consulting firm to almost all of Memphis's major local businesses, back to the area to once again create highly skilled jobs for the local market. It's truly an honor to support this initiative and work to improve the health and wellbeing of Memphis and its people."

The Sales and Operations Center opened with an initial staff of five individuals led by Sonya Machuta, Director of Sales Operations for GCH. The company expects to make additional hires in the areas of sales, project management and benefits consulting as companies utilize the GCH Platform to establish a long-term workplace culture of health and wellbeing, reduce absenteeism and presenteeism and increase employee productivity.

The GCH Platform is a single HR benefits and holistic wellbeing app that empowers employees and their families to manage their life long digital health records, engage with digital and live health specialists and coaches to improve their wellbeing and lower healthcare costs by making meaningful behavioral changes to lead healthy lifestyles.

"Our mission is to help millions of people live healthier, happier lives. By centralizing condition management and wellness programs into a single human resources app, and by providing these services to an employee's entire family, we have demonstrated that employers can drastically increase company engagement and wellness program participation," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of Green Circle Health. "After years of living and working in Memphis, it's an honor to return and once again give back to the local community - first by helping individuals make long-term behavioral changes that will help them lead healthier lives and also by energizing the local economy through jobs and community service."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH Platform, a single HR benefits and holistic wellbeing app that empowers employees and their families to manage their health data, engage with clinical health specialists to improve their wellbeing and lower overall costs by making meaningful behavioral changes to avoid chronic diseases and lead healthier lives. The GCH Platform is a web and mobile based communications gateway designed to improve productivity, decrease absenteeism and presenteeism and improve company profitability.

GCH is a minority owned organization and its technology is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA); the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act; and also supports Meaningful Use. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Green Circle Health's Tech Platform Powers Unique Approach to Wellness

HCM Technology Report, SEPTEMBER 21, 2017, by Mark Feffer

Green Circle Health doesn't claim to be revolutionizing employers' approach to health and wellness benefits. Rather, it's increasing their impact by taking a pragmatic approach that's based on three foundation blocks:

Read more at HCM Technology Report

The secret to open enrollment tech? Don't overthink it

HR Dive, Oct. 26, 2017, by Ryan Golden

If you've ever sat down to discuss the role of technology in benefits and the future impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data in furthering the profession, you’ve probably felt overwhelmed.

After all, who has time to think about the leaps made by algorithms and bots when you're an HR professional, especially around this time of year?

Read more at HR Dive

3 industry reactions to the CVS/Aetna merger

Benefits Pro, DEC 05, 2017, by KATIE KUEHNER-HEBERT

CVS Health Corp.'s deal to acquire Aetna Inc. for about $67.5 billion in cash and stock has the health care industry abuzz, nearly overshadowing the other weekend's major news, the passage of the Senate's tax bill. Granted it's going to take experts just a little bit longer to weigh the effects of that 500-page document on health care, but for now, those in the industry have plenty to say about the CVS/Aetna deal.

For the most part, everyone agrees that the move has the potential to disrupt health care--whether it delivers, however, depends on a number of factors. What could change, and what would it mean for consumers? Let's hear from three industry leaders:

Brian Marcotte, CEO of the National Business Group on Health in Washington, D.C.

"This acquisition is unlike others we've seen in health-care, which have been more horizontal than vertical. We've seen other vertical acquisitions, such as hospitals becoming insurers, but the concern we've had is that there's not a good track record of these health care mergers improving customer experience or lowering the cost of health care.

"What's interesting about this one is that it does have the potential to create better access and more convenience to consumers through CVS' retail pharmacy network. However, CVS will need to expand the number of its clinics, and not just the number of locations, but maybe also the breadth of services in order to do that. If they can deliver that, it could result in lower costs for these types of services.

"One of the challenges with retail clinics today is that they pretty much sit outside the health-care ecosystem. Without networks, is there a way to integrate the health-care delivery in retail pharmacies into the broader delivery system, and share the data and integrate better with primary care offices? Maybe retail can take on routine care, freeing up primary care physicians to deal with more complex issues.

"The question that employers will have is whether this new entity can execute, given that health-care is local, with a very fragmented delivery system. The track record from the mergers within health-care haven't been great, so skepticism will be around execution - but the opportunity is there.

"The other question is whether this new entity can disrupt an overly complex pharmacy supply chain, or will it otherwise continue to entrench an already entrenched business model? There are possibilities around the management of both pharmacy and medical collectively. When managed separately, that sometimes creates the wrong incentives, but integrating pharmacy and medical management can impact the total costs of care."

Jim Winkler, global chief innovation officer of Health at Aon, Norwalk, Connecticut

"We're all working off a fairly limited amount of information at this point, but to us, this is a transaction that has the potential to be transformative as it relates to how health care is accessed and paid for - and not just pharmaceuticals.

"There is lots of coverage around pharmaceuticals, given this is CVS, but we look at this as one of many things that is happening in health care that seek to transform the way we seek care from traditional players in this ecosystem - potentially creating space for new entrants to come in.

"While this is a very big transaction between two very big companies, this is really going to be one where innovation has to have as big as a seat at the table as integration when the two companies come together. In a typical merger-of-equals by competitors in the same space, it's really about integration - taking out costs. But since this transaction is by adjacent players in different parts of the health ecosystem, it's really important for the leaders to think about how to build a combined company that's driven by innovation and transformation in the marketplace.

"It's not just about nuts and bolts about how to integrate the two - innovation will be the most impactful part of the success story."

Dinesh Sheth, chief executive of Green Circle Health Pensacola Beach, Florida

"For Aetna, this deal makes perfect sense, to realize their investment value for their stockholders. It's a great transaction for Aetna on the business side. For CVS, it remains to be seen. They are branching out into unchartered territory. They already own a PBM, Caremark, but to buy an insurance company - it's a very interesting expansion of their own business.

"It's intriguing how they are going to monetize [the acquisition] when they are projecting only $750 million in post-merger synergies. That's not a huge consideration for the price they are paying. I think the success of the merger is going to depend on how much additional business will be derived from the insurance business.

"Now from the consumers' point of view, if an individual is already an Aetna customer, then there's not much change, as Aetna is already using CVS Caremark as their PBM. CVS has other clients that buy from the PBM, and for those clients, the question will be what synergies Aetna brings to the table.

"If you are a large corporate client and are using CVS Caremark, but your insurance is provided by Anthem or UnitedHealthcare, do you now go to Aetna? Then you will be helping grow that side of the business for CVS."

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Optimizing Benefits Programs With A Single HR App: A powerful step forward

HR.com, January 24, 2018, by Dinesh Sheth

Across all industries, modern enterprise technology has served as a powerful tool to revolutionize how businesses operate on a day-to-day basis, and where human resources was once the department stuck in the "Stone Age" - utilizing entirely paper-based processes - new technologies have propelled HR teams to leadership roles where they represent a company's cultural and operational backbone, further driving overall profitability.

One key area where the industry is being impacted most by technology is a company's employee benefits management program. Traditionally, these programs have served as a tool for employers to keep up with market competitors and offer benefits that attract and retain talented employees at the lowest possible cost through negotiating deals with various benefits vendors. Now, thanks to developments in enterprise technologies, employers can better manage their programs internally and also offer improved benefits options for employees and their families.

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Forging a Path to Employee Wellness

WORKSPAN DAILY, FEBRUARY 13, 2018, BY DINESH SHETH

For years, employers have strived to engage their employees in their personal wellness and drive them meaningful behavior change that leads to healthier lives.

And while every employee likely wants to be healthy and avoid expensive medical treatments and chronic diseases, most lack the knowledge, motivation or tools to be successful. As such, employers run the risk and cost burden of operating with a less healthy, less productive workforce. Combined with absenteeism and presenteeism, rising medical costs continue eating away at many companies' profit margins.

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Employee Benefits Plan Audits: Its More than a Checklist

WORKSPAN DAILY, APRIL 5, 2018, BY DINESH SHETH

From open enrollment in the fall to taxes in the spring, regulatory deadlines function as a cornerstone in how most employers - and HR professionals in particular - map out their year. Part of that calendar also includes maintenance and auditing of employee benefit plans (EBPs). Whether immediately following tax season or early in the year for some, employer focus begins shifting toward the examination of employee benefits.

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Attract students and grads with your wellness program, especially financial wellness

College Recruiter, April 10, 2018, By Libby Rothberg

Wellness programs don't just reduce costs by increasing the likelihood that your employees show up for work. A holistic and well-managed wellness program can also serve as a recruitment tool.

We know healthy employees who balance their work and personal lives are more productive. We know that poor physical, emotional and financial health distract employees while they are working and take them away from work to deal with personal issues. Employers have the opportunity to not only increase productivity but also attract talent by providing holistic wellness services. One important element to attract and support younger talent is a robust financial wellness program. Here we compile the expertise of several experts in wellness programs to help you sort out what will benefit your organization.

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Green Circle Health CEO Dinesh Sheth to Present at SHRM18 Conference & Expo on Modern Employee Wellness Programs and Benefits Strategies

Green Circle Health CEO to Present Benefits Strategies that Engage Employees' Families, Reduce Healthcare Costs and Create a Culture of Health and Wellness

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., JUNE 07, 2018 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that its founder and CEO Dinesh Sheth will speak at the Society for Human Resources Management's 2018 Conference and Expo. Sheth will present alongside Matt Harmon, vice president of global benefits and HRIS, customer satisfaction, in their session examining how employers can build a culture of health and wellness to engage employees and lower overall healthcare costs on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. CST at McCormick Place in Chicago. GCH is the provider of the GCH platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employers to engage their employees to better utilize company benefits and services, and for employees and their families to manage health records, improve physical, emotional and financial wellness and lower overall healthcare costs.

Hosted by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the world's largest HR society including 285,000 members in 165 countries, the annual SHRM conference brings together more than 16,000 professionals in the benefits, compensation and HR industry to explore emerging trends and technologies. Sheth and Harmon, during their session, will examine how employers can build a corporate culture of health and wellness designed to engage employees and reduce absenteeism, presenteeism and overall healthcare costs. In addition to their presentation, GCH will exhibit their recently enhanced award-winning HR benefits and services dashboard and mobile app at booth #3407 throughout the conference, June 17-20.

As the founder and CEO of Green Circle Health, Sheth oversees the business direction, operations, partnerships and deployment of the company's innovative HR benefits app designed to engage employees with corporate wellness initiatives. Leveraging his extensive business acumen and knowledge of mobile communication, remote monitoring technology, human dynamics and business process and workflow optimization, he created the GCH platform to help employers offer a personalized experience to each employee unique to any business's corporate culture, improving employee engagement and wellbeing while driving overall profitability.

"To have a meaningful impact on a business's bottom line, employers must take a holistic view of employee wellness and engage their staff on an individual level," said Sheth. "At the end of our session, I hope attendees walk away with a greater understanding of an employees' need for support not only managing their physical wellbeing, but mental, emotional and fiscal health as well, and how they can bring work-life balance into a competitive environment."

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Green Circle Health Expands Capabilities of Flagship Platform to Enhance How Employers Engage Employees; Company to Exhibit at SHRM Conference

Wellness Program Provider Helps Employers Reduce Costs With Culture of Health and Wellbeing

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., JUNE 13, 2018 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that it has made significant enhancements to its GCH Platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employers to centralize all HR benefits and services into a single app for employees and their families. The Platform also allows employees to manage their healthcare records, improve their families' health and wellbeing and supports an employer's efforts to enhance corporate productivity, profitability and lower overall healthcare costs.

Within the past year, GCH has made tremendous progress in achieving its goal of helping employers build a holistic culture of health and wellness and engaging employees to make meaningful lifestyle changes to lead happier, healthier lives, which reduces employer costs and improves their bottom line. To further build upon this success, GCH is releasing the latest version of its GCH Platform, which includes such features as:

• A comprehensive dashboard of all available HR services and benefits for employees, such as training, recruiting, compensation, insurance benefits, pharmacy benefits, EAP, financial advice, 401K participation and secondary options, all within a company-specific mobile app;
• Single sign-on to all company provided and third-party services designed to facilitate ease-of-use and engagement;
• Employee bulletin boards featuring company news, health and wellness stories, administrative announcements and employee-driven content such as photos, videos and articles of interest;
• Wellness assessments, which compile employee and family member vitals, physical emotional, social, financial, spiritual and occupational wellness data to provide user-specific guidance and advice as well as year over year trends;
• Integration with on-site and offsite health screening, condition management tools and care programs all within a single mobile app;
• Corporate rewards programs designed to incentivize employees and measure success of various wellness and incentive programs hosted through the platform;
• Employer dashboards for management to view employee engagement, risk profiles, program participation, activity progress, rewards distribution and other aggregate data analysis to enhance benefits and wellness initiatives; and
• Expanded GCH Live services to support high-cost, high-need populations with multiple health conditions, as well as support for healthy employees through preventative care initiatives.

The company will exhibit its award winning platform at the Society for Human Resources Management's (SHRM) 2018 Conference and Expo at booth #3407, June 17-20. In addition, GCH's Founder and CEO, Dinesh Sheth, will speak at the conference alongside Matt Harmon, Vice President of Global Benefits and HRIS, Customer Satisfaction, in a session that explores how companies can build a culture of health and wellness and engage employees to reduce healthcare costs, lower absenteeism and presenteeism and drive corporate engagement on be on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. CST.

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health (GCH) is the provider of the GCH Platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employers to centralize all HR benefits and services into a single app for employees and their families to access, while also managing healthcare records improving health and wellbeing and driving improved productivity, profitability and lowering overall healthcare costs. Green Circle Health facilitates wellness challenges, biometric screening, condition management, remote monitoring, coordination of care and life style changes through digital and live coaching to improve health outcomes. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Wellness participation: How data drives engagement

To be successful, an employer must implement wellness programs by first developing a concrete strategy to drive and track employee engagement.

Benefits Pro, August 13, 2018, by Dinesh Sheth

Employer wellness programs exist for two key reasons: 1) to save on a company’s health care costs; and 2) to help keep employees healthier and more productive. Despite their existence since the early 1970s, the truth is that wellness programs, in general, have been ineffective at demonstrating a clear return-on-investment (ROI) for employers. At the same time however, scientific research indicates employers should see a return of $1.50 to $2.00 from each dollar spent on wellness programs. The disconnect between studies and reality stems from the fact that there is no simple way for an organization to realize the same results. Instead, to be successful, an employer must implement wellness programs by first developing a concrete strategy to drive and track employee engagement.

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Employee Education & Personalization Are Keys to Success of your Benefits

HR Daily Advisor, Oct 4, 2018, by Dinesh Sheth

A struggle many employers face is deriving the most value from their benefits investments and encouraging employee participation in company health and wellness programs. At a fundamental level, most employers offer similar benefits and, when put side by side, they can often add up to as many as 67 individual services or programs for employees to consider. Most employees however, cannot easily compare these benefits, much less understand how to get the most value from them.

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Green Circle Health Recognized as Human Resources and Healthcare Industry Innovator by Healthcare Revolution

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., Oct. 30, 2018 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that the company has been recognized at HEALTHCARE REVOLUTION as one of the most innovative healthcare companies of 2018. GCH is the provider of the GCH platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employers to engage staff to better utilize company benefits and services, and for employees and their families to manage health records, improve physical, emotional and financial wellness to lower overall healthcare costs.

In its inaugural year, the 2018 Innovation Awards recognize leading, disruptive organizations and agents of change transforming the employer benefits, medical tourism and healthcare industries. This year's award recipients were evaluated and selected by executives from Global Healthcare Resources, as well as editors and journalists of Corporate Wellness Magazine and Medical Tourism Magazine. Founder and CEO Dinesh Sheth accepted the award on behalf of GCH at the conference.

"The healthcare and human resources industries have converged significantly over the last several years as employers try to bridge the gap between their employees and healthcare technology designed to help them and their families live healthier lives, thus reducing overall company costs and improving productivity," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO of Green Circle Health. "All of the honorees recognized by Global Healthcare Resources have made noteworthy industry contributions and are not only positioned for success, but to improve the lives of millions as well."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health (GCH) is the provider of the GCH Platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employers to centralize all HR benefits and services into a single app for employees and their families. The platform also allows staff and their family members to manage healthcare records, participate in wellness challenges, biometric screening, condition management, remote healthcare monitoring, coordination of care and make meaningful lifestyle changes to improve overall health outcomes, thus improving productivity, profitability and lowering overall healthcare costs. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Health Enhances Flagship Platform to Further Reduce Employer Healthcare Costs and Maximize Benefits Utilization

GCH Platform helps employers engage and communicate with multi-generational workforce to encourage utilization of company services and benefits.

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., JANUARY 23, 2019 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced that the company has made significant enhancements to its GCH Platform, a web- and mobile-based service for employers to centralize all HR benefits and services within a single app for employees and their families. The platform helps employers better engage and communicate with employees to encourage greater utilization of company benefits and services which improves productivity while promoting physical, emotional, mental and financial wellbeing of employees and their families.

Throughout 2018, GCH helped employers improve employee engagement and drive better outcomes as they build holistic cultures of health and wellness. The GCH Platform allowed employers to maximize benefits utilization and engage employees to make meaningful behavioral changes to lead happier, healthier lives, which reduces costs and improves productivity. In addition, the company has made great strides in engaging all employee demographics, whether millennials, Gen-X or Baby Boomers, with its streamlined user interface across different channels. GCH also allows employers to engage four additional family members per employee, bringing an added level of engagement to any company's culture.

To build upon its proven success for clients, which range from health system, a large-scale employer of more than 85,000 employees and their family members, to small businesses, GCH is releasing the latest version of its GCH Platform, featuring:

• An HR services dashboard to access payroll services, personnel records, internal job boards, recruiting, training, assistance programs and more through bi-directional Single Sign-on (SSO);
• An HR benefits dashboard for employees to access healthcare, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) plans, Employee Assistance Programs, third-party programs, annual enrollments and more with SSO;
• Wellness challenges, wellness assessment, risk based programs and team competitions designed to engage employees with daily activities that promote healthy physical, emotional and financial habits;
• An employer-employee communications gateway with multi-channel access through either mobile, desktop or tablet for one-to-one and one-to-many messaging including bulletin boards, messaging, emails and control panels;
• Leader boards and wellness calendars which easily integrate with company provided rewards programs and redemption options;
• Enhanced events and scheduling service to manage employee participation in health screening and company hosted events, with a streamlined approach to sharing resulting and health coaching within the same app;
• An enhanced care program module designed with clinically sound protocols to work closely with GCH Live services with integrated scheduling and task management;
• Expanded language functionality to include Spanish within the GCH web- and mobile-apps, as well as flexibility to add other languages as needed;
• Streamlined communication modules for care providers to engage patient-employees with guidance on how to manage chronic conditions, health screenings, preventative care and general coaching; and
• Integrated HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) technology to easily populate patient-employee health records and profiles from hospitals, labs, screening clinics and other healthcare providers.

"Employers today are under tremendous pressure to not only reduce their healthcare expenditures, but also ensure employee benefits and services are being utilized to the fullest extent possible," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO of Green Circle Health. "Companies spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on HR services and benefits designed to help employees engage with their brand and be productive, but unless they take advantage of those offerings, their efforts can quickly fall flat. Employers must use proper technology and meet employees where they are in order to deliver these services, on their mobile phones and tablets. GCH's services are designed to help employers circumvent this pitfall and drive employee engagement and productivity."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health (GCH) is the provider of the GCH Platform, a patented web- and mobile-based service for employers to maximize benefits and HR services utilization, reduce healthcare costs and better engage and communicate with employees and their families.

The GCH Platform functions as a multi-generational communications gateway that allows employers to engage with employees and their families across all channels. In addition, GCH centralizes all HR benefits and services within its easy-to-use web and app-based dashboards to maximize utilization and employer return-on-investment. Employees and their family members can also use the app for wellness assessments, screenings, wellness programs, rewards management, chronic condition management programs and more. GCH helps companies improve productivity, decrease absenteeism and presenteeism and reduce overall costs while driving profitability.

GCH is a minority owned company whose GCH Platform has been recognized by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of the National Coordinator, Intelligent Health Association, Mayo Clinic, Global Healthcare Resources and National Association of Business Resources. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Health Selected by National Association for Business Resources as a Nation's Best & Brightest® Company in Wellness

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., FEBRUARY 04, 2019 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced it was selected by the National Association for Business Resources as one of the Best and Brightest® Companies in Wellness. Green Circle Health is the provider of the GCH Platform, a patented web- and mobile-based service for employers to maximize benefits utilization, reduce healthcare costs and better engage and communicate with employees and their families.

"Health and wellness programs are at the forefront of every business looking to retain a healthy workforce. This year's winning companies represent high standards and an exceptional commitment to their employees' wellbeing", said Jennifer Kluge, President and CEO of the Best and Brightest Programs.

The Best and Brightest in Wellness® celebrates those companies that are making theirs and other businesses healthier, the lives of their employees better and the community a healthier place to live and work for all. With its GCH Platform, GCH helps employers engage employees and their families to build a culture of health and wellness that encourages employees and their families to make meaningful behavioral changes to and live healthier lives, which reduces absenteeism and presenteeism, improves productivity and reduces healthcare costs.

"We are honored to be selected for this award. Every day we focus on helping employers create healthy a workplace by focusing on the holistic wellbeing of their employees and families. Using our centralized HR benefits and services mobile app and dashboards, employers can engage employees with available benefits to maximize utilization," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO of Green Circle Health. "Communication, education and ease-of-use, these are three critical elements that employers must incorporate within their programs to ensure employees are engaged and making the most of what's available to them."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health (GCH) is the provider of the GCH Platform, a patented web- and mobile-based service for employers to maximize benefits and HR services utilization, reduce healthcare costs and better engage and communicate with employees and their families.

The GCH Platform functions as a multi-generational communications gateway that allows employers to engage with employees and their families across all channels. In addition, GCH centralizes all HR benefits and services within its easy-to-use web and app-based dashboards to maximize utilization and employer return-on-investment. Employees and their family members can also use the app for wellness assessments, screenings, wellness programs, rewards management, chronic condition management programs and more. GCH helps companies improve productivity, decrease absenteeism and presenteeism and reduce overall costs while driving profitability.

GCH is a minority owned company whose GCH Platform has been recognized by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of the National Coordinator, Intelligent Health Association, Mayo Clinic, Global Healthcare Resources and National Association of Business Resources. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Health Awarded Patent For Innovative Platform That Helps Employers Strengthen Employee Engagement and Benefits Utilization

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., March 18, 2019 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 10169607 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its award-winning GCH Platform. The GCH Platform is a web- and mobile-based service for employers to maximize benefits utilization, reduce healthcare costs and better engage and communicate with employees and their families.

GCH's patent reinforces the company's position as a leading provider of HR technology that combines employee and family member health data with employer-provided benefits and services to improve health and wellness and corporate engagement. The patent protects GCH's proprietary method of exchanging critical data between users of the GCH Platform and other third-party services. GCH's patented method helps employees and their family members better collect and manage personal health data from any source, as well as share such results with GCH's live health coaches who provide in-depth guidance on how users can manage chronic diseases.

"In order to mitigate rising healthcare costs, it's important for employers to invest in services and technology that empower high-cost, high-need employees and family members to manage their healthcare," said Sanjay Parikh, M.D., co-founder and chief medical officer of Green Circle Health "The GCH Platform not only helps employers support employee wellness efforts, but centralizes an entire family's medical history to drive engagement and create a personalized patient experience."

"Employers are increasingly focused on ensuring their employees have easy access to their benefits and services designed to help them get the most from their compensation. They also want to foster a productive, engaging work environment as they help employees lead happier and healthier lives," said Dinesh Sheth, founder and CEO of Green Circle Health. "This new patent demonstrates Green Circle Health's world-class technology which utilizes employee health data to create a personalized experience and help them make meaningful behavioral changes to manage chronic conditions and reduce healthcare costs."

About Green Circle Health
Green Circle Health (GCH) is the provider of the GCH Platform, a patented web- and mobile-based service for employers to maximize benefits utilization, reduce healthcare costs and better engage and communicate with employees and their families. With simple and easy access to HR benefits and services, such as payroll, job posting, hiring, training, and internal communications, all within a secure environment, employees engage in productive and healthy behaviors while performing daily activities.

The GCH Platform functions as a cross-generational communications gateway that allows employers to engage with employees and their families across all channels. In addition, GCH centralizes all HR benefits and services within its easy-to-use web-based dashboard and mobile app to maximize utilization and employer return-on-investment. Employees and their family members can also use the app to conduct wellness assessments, screenings, wellness programs, rewards, chronic condition management programs and more. GCH helps companies improve productivity, decrease absenteeism and presenteeism and reduce overall expenditures.

GCH is a minority owned company whose GCH Platform has been recognized by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of the National Coordinator, Intelligent Health Association, Mayo Clinic, Global Healthcare Resources and National Association of Business Resources. For more information, visit www.greencirclehealth.com and follow them on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Health Renames Company as Green Circle Life and Expands Service Offerings

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., April 24, 2019 - Green Circle Health (GCH) announced it has renamed the company Green Circle Life and launched new services to meet increased market demand for more comprehensive human resources (HR) solutions. Green Circle Life helps employers maximize benefits utilization to drive productivity and profitability through an engaged, happy and healthy workforce.

With Green Circle Life, employers better engage employees by providing innovative tools and strategies to improve not only how they work, but how they live as well. Now, in response to positive industry adoption of its services, Green Circle Life is diversifying its service offerings with the release of:

• Green Circle HR offers employers centralized HR benefits and services dashboards via their own company branded mobile app for use by employees and their families. With these centralized HR dashboards, employees have access to all employer provided services and benefits, such as health insurance, prescription services, 401k plans, voluntary benefits, payroll, enrollment, training programs, handbooks and other internal tools. Available via mobile app or web-based portal, the dashboard's multi-channel communications capabilities help employers maximize benefits utilization and ensure employees are realizing the most value from their total compensation.
• Green Circle Health provides employers with risk stratification capabilities and a deeper understanding of their overall healthcare costs. Leveraging this service, employers offer employees and four family members access to chronic condition management programs, the ability to augment health records and vital information in real-time using connected health devices and trackers and remote monitoring services featuring digital and live coaches from Green Circle Health's clinical team, who manage outreach and follow-up to help families achieve better outcomes and live healthier lives.
• Green Circle Wellness helps employers create a culture of holistic wellbeing using wellness assessments, personalized wellness programs and team wellness challenges that encourage employees and their families to make meaningful behavioral changes and lead healthier lives. With integrated rewards management, screening, events management, activities tracking and coaching, employee health and wellbeing can become an active part of their daily lives.

All these services are fully integrated with each other and can be deployed individually or expanded as company needs evolve over time.

"We have learned over the past several years that a narrow focus on health and wellness alone does not help employers maximize benefits utilization or attract and retain employees," said Dinesh Sheth, founder and CEO of Green Circle Life. "Green Circle Life creates an engaging employee experience that supports employees and their families both at work and at home."

To learn more, visit the new website at www.greencirclelife.com.

About Green Circle Life
Green Circle Life offers the patented web- and mobile-based Green Circle platform for employers to engage employees and their families to live happier, healthier and more productive lives. This helps employers attract and retain talent as they offer a centralized app for employees to access communications, benefits and services, which leads to more workforce creativity, better healthcare outcomes, lower healthcare costs and improved profitability through a culture of holistic wellbeing.

The Green Circle Life suite of services are designed for a multi-generational workforce and segmented as HR, Health and Wellness, which are HIPAA and EEOC compliant. These services are fully integrated with each other and can be deployed individually or expanded as company needs evolve over time. For more information, visit www.greencirclelife.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Maximizing benefits utilization with HR dashboards

While brokers and their clients are constantly reviewing and updating their benefits offerings to best serve their employees, those same employees are often unaware of those benefits, much less how to make them a part of their daily lives or find them when they need them.

Benefits Pro, April 24, 2019, by Dinesh Sheth

Employees have access to more employer-provided benefits and services than ever before. From typical health insurance and 401(k)s to wellness and employee assistance programs, employers are increasingly using their benefits and human resources services as a powerful tool for employee recruitment, retention and corporate engagement.

While brokers and their clients are constantly reviewing and updating their benefits offerings to best serve their employees, those same employees are often unaware of those benefits, much less how to make them a part of their daily lives or find them when they need them. This poses a critical issue for employers, as it inhibits their ability to realize the greatest return on their investment - both from a financial and corporate culture standpoint.

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Autozone drives employee engagement with benefits, HR app

Employee Benefit News, April 25, 2019, by Kathryn Mayer

LAS VEGAS - Automotive retailer Autozone had a communications problem. Though it offers a slew of competitive benefits, its employees either weren't taking advantage of them or were unaware of the offerings altogether.

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Eliminating silos: How TPA integration removes friction

A lack of centralization that comes with outsourcing HR functions culminates in wasted resources and a dissatisfied workforce.

Benefits Pro, July 16, 2019, By Dinesh Sheth

Few, if any, employers would dispute the value of integrating disparate human resources (HR) technology systems within one centralized service. Whether improving how HR decisions are made, generating helpful workforce analytics or creating a seamless experience for employees and management, integrated systems further HR's overall mission of serving the needs of both employers and employees.

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When banks' tech solutions serve employees as well as customers, everybody benefits

BAI, August 26, 2019, By Dinesh Sheth

Financial institutions spend billions on technology, and for good reason: Through updating new systems and automating processes, banks provide their customers with an efficient, friendly user experience. But even as technology evolves, employees remain crucial to a customer's overall bank experience-whether in a branch as tellers and loan officers or on the back end as customer support representatives.

Read more at https://www.bai.org/banking-strategies/article-detail/when-banks-tech-solutions-serve-employees-as-well-as-customers-everybody-benefits

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Green Circle Life Celebrates Growth with Six New Partnerships, Platform Enhancements

Green Circle Life grows its reach by partnering with six organizations and expands its platform to include multi-channel communication services and other added features.

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Green Circle Life, provider of the patented web- and app-based service for employers to maximize benefits and human resources (HR) services utilization, announced significant company milestones today. This includes six new partnerships and a new release of its SmartFHR app and web-based platform to engage employees and their families.

Green Circle Life recently partnered with HRO Partners, The Barnett Group, Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, InVite Fitness, i2eHCM and iRedeemHealth to bring its services to their clients and into new markets. Each partnership amplifies Green Circle Life's reputation as one of the most advanced engagement platforms for employers. These alliances give these consultants an advantage over their competition because they can now offer a differentiated solution that defines and offers benefits, making it easy to enroll and engage at any time.

"We're thrilled to offer organizations a platform to create personalized experiences as they engage employees and their families in their company culture," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO of Green Circle Life. "Additionally, teaming up with such trusted partners and advisors enables more employers to maximize their brand value and get the best return on their investments in benefits and services. With services to integrate holistic wellbeing including condition management and our live coaching service, clients can achieve better results than traditional solutions."

Green Circle Life also released a new version of its platform and SmartFHR™ app, which expanded multi-channel communication services for a multi-generational workforce and added features such as live, confidential coaching with nurse practitioners and dieticians, integration of personal health data in a health profile, wellness stores and more. Additionally, with the new update, organizations have the flexibility to segment their population and offer personalized services and benefits with proprietary workflows to build multi-generational employee experiences.

These ongoing enhancements are designed to make the user experience seamless and create efficient HR interactions through intuitive communication platforms such as dashboards, newsletters, push notifications and more.

"As a company we focus on providing purposeful solutions to employees and their families," Sheth added. "We want to assist with their goals of holistic wellbeing and work to engage them to achieve the balance in life that makes them happy, healthy and productive. As employers continue to encourage and support their employees, we listen to their feedback and implement solutions that build a workplace that delivers better wellbeing results. We are delighted to be part of their journey and help them succeed."

About Green Circle Life
Green Circle Life offers the patented web and SmartFHR™ app-based platform for employers to engage employees and their families using multi-channel communications to live happier, healthier and more productive lives. This helps employers attract and retain talent as they offer a branded personalized app for employees to access all their benefits and services, condition management programs, wellness programs and live coaching, which leads to more workforce creativity, better healthcare outcomes, lower healthcare costs and improved profitability through a culture of holistic wellbeing.

The Green Circle Life suite of services are designed for a multi-generational workforce and segmented as HR, Health and Wellness, which are HIPAA and EEOC compliant. These services are fully integrated with each other and can be deployed individually or expanded as company needs evolve over time. For more information, visit http://www.greencirclelife.com.

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Green Circle Life Celebrates Record Growth with SmartFHR™ Platform

SmartFHR™ platform achieves more than 500,000 users in 2019, doubles clients

MEMPHIS, TENN. (PRWEB) JANUARY 31, 2020

Green Circle Life, provider of SmartFHR, an innovative, all-in-one communication and engagement web and app-based service that aggregates employee-facing human resources (HR), wellness, and healthcare services, reported significant achievements for 2019 including another year of doubling and diversifying the client base, exponential growth in users, increased customer satisfaction and successfully rebranding services.

SmartFHR™ is being accessed collectively by more than 500,000 users nationwide. Green Circle Life expanded its user base from employees of retail and healthcare companies to include financial institutions, government entities, universities, hospitality companies and more. In a recently conducted client survey, 92 percent of users reported the service as easy to use and an excellent resource for benefits and HR services.

"Our team has worked hard to make sure the Smart FHR platform is best in its class, which is showcased by the great feedback we've received from our clients and their users," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of Green Circle Life. "We attribute this success to the flexibility of SmartFHR™ to meet the unique needs of each client. Our clients, including their employees and families, have evolving HR and benefits needs, and this past year we took measures to implement and deliver services in record time to meet the growing demand."

Earlier this year, the company shifted from providing siloed offerings for health condition management, HR solutions and wellness programs to providing a comprehensive and integrated solution that addresses a user's daily needs. This has allowed clients to select the SmartFHR™ platform for their specific workforce needs, as services can be integrated or offered individually. The platform also focuses on communication and engagement with the company culture and offers clients solutions to encourage a productive and healthy workforce.

Sheth added, "Our clients are now using the platform to conduct any and all internal company business, engage with benefits consistently, make lifestyle changes with their families and more. The platform is nimble and easy to access and use; our clients are seeing tremendous growth in benefits utilization and employee engagement with the resources provided in the app. We will continue to strengthen our partnerships and build environments that help our clients be healthy and successful."

New features were also added to the SmartFHR™ app and web-platform this year including a personalized dashboard, the ability to create appointments with health providers, enhanced analysis and guidance based on wellness assessments and chronic care management programs. By lowering barriers of accessibility and offering all-inclusive resources, companies are providing a clear direction to their employees on where to go for answers. Additionally, with the ability to bring family members in the platform for free, clients can promote programs and better communicate to family members as they build their brand to attract and retain employees.

About Green Circle Life
Green Circle Life offers the patented web and SmartFHR™ app-based platform for employers to engage employees and their families to live happier, healthier and more productive lives. This company-branded app helps attract and retain talent by providing employees access to all their benefits and services, condition management programs, wellness programs and live coaching. This translates into a more engaged workforce, better healthcare outcomes, lower healthcare costs and improved profitability through a culture of holistic wellbeing.

The Green Circle Life service is designed for a multi-generational workforce and is HIPAA and EEOC compliant. The platform is private labeled and fully integrated with internal and external systems. It is configurable and can expand as company needs evolve over time. For more information, visit http://www.greencirclelife.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Green Circle Life Releases HR Insights for 2020 Trends, Issues

The SmartFHR™ provider's trends survey found 62% of HR professionals turn to technology for solution.

PENSACOLA BEACH, FLA. (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Green Circle Life, provider of SmartFHR, an all-in-one communication and engagement web and app-based service that aggregates employee-facing human resources (HR), wellness, and healthcare services, released a data report that highlights trends and issues facing the HR industry in 2020. The survey was conducted by industry professionals, and more than 70 percent of respondents reported they were directly involved in HR initiatives at their company.

Highlights from the survey findings include:

• 62 percent of respondents rank technology as the most important solution for their organization as they enhance HR services;
• More than 48 percent report driving cultural change and engaging employees in company culture as an important goal to reach in 2020;
• 30 percent report the primary hurdle getting their employees to engage with benefits is a lack of interest and understanding;
• When asked about a strategy for engaging a multi-generational workforce with benefits, 64 percent report they need to improve and develop their strategy further; and
• 44 percent report the benefits challenges employers face when having a multi-generational workforce is with lifestyle and priority conflicts.

Dinesh Sheth, CEO and founder of Green Circle Life, said, "The findings from the survey confirm what we thought were challenges in the industry. Corporations are facing increased costs for benefits packages, so it's important for them to have a proper return on investment for the resources offered. Many companies are focusing on their overall culture as a way to engage, attract and retain employees. Additionally, as the workforce is becoming more age-diverse, employers must provide solutions and competitive offerings to best reach everyone. In 2020, the HR community will strive to get the most value out of their resources and use technology as an accelerator to achieve their goals."

The full report can be found here.

TecHRseries Interview with Dinesh Sheth, Founder & CEO at Green Circle Life

TecHRseries, March 31, 2020, By Paroma Sen

Dinesh Sheth, Founder and CEO of Green Circle Life - an innovative, comprehensive communication and engagement platform joins us in this TecHRseries interview to share a little about his entrepreneurial journey while discussing his thoughts on how HR Technology is set to redefine workplace management and cultures.

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Employers Fail When They Stereotype a Generation

WorldatWork, April 01, 2020, By Dinesh Sheth

Today's human resources professionals deal with the unique challenge of having a multigenerational workforce. The last couple of years have seen an influx of multigenerations in the workforce as people are now working longer and retiring later in life. As younger generations enter and older generations remain in the workforce, employers are becoming aware of the different lifestyles, priorities and values that are merging from having such an age-diverse workforce. They are seeking ways to address the various generational needs and offer solutions that work best.

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Green Circle Life Steps up to Help During COVID-19

SmartFHR™ Platform Provider Offers Communication Feature for Free to Employers

PENSACOLA BEACH, FLA. (PRWEB) April 16, 2020

Green Circle Life, provider of SmartFHR, an innovative, all-in-one communication and engagement web and app-based service that aggregates employee-facing services, announced that it has made the private-labeled communications feature of SmartFHR™ available at no cost to employers for the next six months amidst the coronavirus crisis.

The platform provides a mobile-first approach to communications and improves overall comprehension, retention and understanding of employer messages. The communications feature is part of the company branded app that offers multi-channel delivery such as email, text, group messaging, bulletin board, push notifications and alerts to employees and family members. Additionally, Green Circle Life has made available its Resource Library, which allows employers to organize and distribute important notice and policy documents through the SmartFHR™ app, as well as the ability to create and manage virtual corporate events.

Many employers are successfully communicating updates regarding COVID-19 to their workforce using SmartFHR. AutoZone, a leading auto parts retailer, is able to leverage the platform to communicate with more than 90,000 AutoZoners and their family members by delivering audio, video and policy documents on a regular basis.

"Our workforce has been using the Green Circle Life platform for several years now, but it has become increasingly helpful while navigating through the coronavirus crisis," said Matthew C. Harmon, VP, Benefits, Compensation and HR Systems at AutoZone. "We are able to keep AutoZoners informed of the quickly changing situation through the app and web portal, as well as allow AutoZoners to share their situation and adjust to work-from-home requirements as the situation evolves."

The SmartFHR™ platform provides timely and effective communication to employees and their families. Users can access the platform from the web or download the application from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.

"At Green Circle Life, we want to help all organizations succeed by providing the level of communication that is necessary and helpful to employees as well as their families. We believe it is important for us to do our part and help other organizations who may not have the time and resource to deploy new technologies. We are offering our assistance to alleviate anxiety and confusion by increasing the speed of communication while keeping everyone informed in this rapidly changing environment," said Dinesh Sheth, CEO of Green Circle Life.

The application can be live within seven days and employers can use the service at no cost for up to six months. If interested, contact covid19free@greencirclelife.com to get started.

About Green Circle Life
Green Circle Life offers the patented web and SmartFHR™ app-based platform for employers to engage employees and their families to live happier, healthier and more productive lives. This company-branded app helps attract and retain talent by providing employees access to all their benefits and services, condition management programs, wellness programs and live coaching. This translates into a more engaged workforce, better healthcare outcomes, lower healthcare costs and improved profitability through a culture of holistic wellbeing.

The Green Circle Life service is designed for a multi-generational workforce and is HIPAA and EEOC compliant. The platform is private labeled and fully integrated with internal and external systems. It is configurable and can expand as company needs evolve over time. For more information, visit www.greencirclelife.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Memphis-connected tech co. makes software free for six months

Memphis Business Journal, April 20, 2020, By John Klyce

Employees of Green Circle Life recently discussed what they could do to aid people, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Other businesses were making masks or hand sanitizer. But, for Green Circle Life - a software company and provider of the web and app-based platform SmartFHR™ - this wasn't feasible.

The staffers did, however, realize they could help in another crucial area: communication.

On April 16, Green Circle Life announced it was making the communications feature of SmartFHR™ free to employers for six months.

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96,000 AutoZoner Heroes Say......

Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM), April 29, 2020, by Deborah Love

Communications tools are more important today than ever before.

IHPM interviewed AutoZone, Inc. VP of Benefits, Compensation, HR Systems, Customer Satisfaction, Matt Harmon and Green Circle Life Founder & CEO, Dinesh Sheth to share how AutoZone's "essential business" workforce of 96,000 is successfully working, communicating and receiving updates regarding COVID-19.

Read more at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/96000-autozoner-heroes-say-deborah-love/

Excerpt from IHPM interview with AutoZone Inc.

IHPM interview excerpt of Matt Harmon, AutoZone Inc., May 14, 2020

AutoZone has been using the Green Circle Life platform for more than three years. Matt Harmon who is the VP of Benefits, Compensation, HR Systems, Customer Satisfaction, at AutoZone was recently interviewed by IHPM and asked how AutoZone uses the Green Circle Life SmartFHR™ app to communicate and engage their employees. Here are excerpts from Matt's interview that describes AutoZone's experience with our app.