Vivecoach Wellness Challenge Draws 2,500 Flextronics Employees

Menlo Park, CA: Vivecoach, the leading corporate wellness challenge application company, announces that its customer, Flextronics, has recently completed a company-wide “Step” challenge with 2,500 employees across the U.S.  With a participating employee completion rate of 80% and commitment of …

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Wellness at Brocade

This summer we had the pleasure of attending the Healthcare Unbound Conference where we heard Lisa McGill from Brocade talk about “Wellness at Brocade”.  Vivecoach has become part of Brocade’s strategy to promote wellness through their private online social platform …

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Step It Up, IDT!

Silver Creek, CA–Two weeks ago, the Vivecoach Team (Chief Viveur and summer interns Sonja and Tina) made an appearance at the IDT Headquarters in Silver Creek at the 2011 IDT Wellness Fair. Working alongside the very helpful IDT Human Resources …

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From the Intern Files: Friendly Competition via CYOC

Whew! It’s been a few days since we (the fabulous summer 2011 interns of Vivecoach: Sonja, Kim, Kunal, and I, Tina) launched our own custom challenge among our friends, provocatively entitled, My friends are fitter than your friends. It’s a …

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Vivecoach Announces $1.5M Investment

MENLO PARK, CA, Jun 16, 2011:  Vivecoach announced that the company has raised a new round, bringing total funding to $1.5M. Lead investors include serial entrepreneurs Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak, with participation from Seraph Group, Aquinas Companies, TIBCO Software …

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Friendly Co-workers May Increase Your Lifespan

A new study conducted at Tel Aviv University in Israel, shows that friendly co-workers may increase your lifespan by up to 20 years.  “The results show social support from peers at work was associated with a reduced risk of death …

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Smartphone Users Prefer Texts for Health Reminders

Consumer Health Information Corp. launched a study in March that found that the majority of smart-phone users (41 percent) want to receive health reminders via text message.  Further the study found that the ease of use was the determinant of …

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Vivecoach Executive Exercise Challenge at Brocade Drives Record Engagement

Menlo Park, CA: Vivecoach, the leading corporate wellness challenge application company, announces that its customer, Brocade  (recently ranked one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area), has recently completed a 531-person global exercise …

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Mobile Teen Health WAY2GO! Program Receives Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care

Vivecoach is proud to announce that one of our partners, the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is this year’s recipient of the Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care for their program, WAY2GO,  in conjunction with Vivecoach. …

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Health Gaming on the Rise

Video games and other types of interactive games can start leading the way to fight off unhealthy habits.  According to a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association, games show “ great promise in channeling these hours of …

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