April 1, 2021

Widespread use of fruit and vegetable prescription programs may be way off, but here’s what dieticians and physicians can do today to help their patients

Healthy Meals

The recent blog post by Garry Welch, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Silver Fern, focused on ways to improve Americans’ fruit and vegetable intake. Dr. Welch discussed the rationale for society to invest in programs that allowed and encouraged medical personnel to prescribe food as opposed to, or in combination with medicine, to treat chronic …

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March 22, 2021

Silver Fern CEO and Co-Founder Colleen A. McGuire Receives Harford Business Journal’s Annual Women in Business Award

Hartford, Conn., March 22, 2021  — Silver Fern Healthcare’s Co-Founder and CEO Colleen A. McGuire was named a 2021 honoree of the Hartford Business Journal’s Women in Business Awards. Silver Fern Healthcare is a proud Connecticut company that is transforming chronic disease care through its evidence-based, clinically validated SaaS behavior diagnostic and decision support platform. …

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March 19, 2021

Can we transform our nation’s health if clinicians strongly promote fruits and vegetables with patients?

Healthy Meals

This post explores the healing power of fruits and vegetables and the need for clinicians to become more involved in national strategies that encourage Americans to eat more of them. Research shows that eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and seeds as part of a broader lifestyle medicine strategy – especially combined with weight loss …

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March 5, 2021

Five Foods You Can Tell Your Patients to Reach for in a Convenience Store

Practice Points - Nutrition

At some point in their busy lives, your patients are going to turn to or find themselves in a convenience store to buy food. This will happen occasionally for some patients, such as when they are traveling for vacation or run out of a food staple before the next grocery trip. However, it may be a regular practice for others, often because conveniences stores are, well convenient –  close to …

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March 4, 2021

Silver Fern Launches YouTube Page Featuring Valuable Content and User and Patient Stories

Silver Fern is proud to share our newly launched YouTube channel. Our channel will be used to feature useful content and share inspiring stories of Silver Fern Healthcare users making a dramatic impact on their patients’ lives. To visit our channel, click here. And we hope you’ll follow us so that we can notify you when we …

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March 3, 2021

Four ways we can help patients make dining out a regular part of a healthful diet plan

Practice Points - Nutrition

According to Business Insider, Americans eat out 5.9 times a week on average. That’s an astounding 28% of meals, and we spend a lot of money doing it. Business Insider broke the cost per person down by state, and on the high end, in states like Massachusetts and New York, a person can spend more than $3,500 each year eating out.  There …

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March 2, 2021

Silver Fern CEO Featured in Authority Magazine: 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System

Colleen A. McGuire, Silver Fern’s Co-Founder and CEO was recently interviewed by Authority Magazine for a featured article entitled, 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System. Colleen answered a wide range of questions about her experience, including “How would you define an ‘excellent healthcare provider’?”; “Are you working on any exciting …

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Did you miss the ACLM’s recent webinar featuring Silver Fern and WellSpark Health?

On February 26th, Silver Fern’s Chief Scientific Officer, Garry Welch, Ph.D., and Chief Client Officer, Cindy Wicks were featured speakers in the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s (ACLM) webinar series. The webinar, titled: Transitioning to Whole-Health Care in a Value-Based World, had more than 250 attendees from across the US and all over the world. …

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February 24, 2021

Giving Your Patients the Whole Truth About High Blood Pressure

Practice Points - Heart Health

The World Health Organization has declared hypertension a global health crisis. An astounding 45% of adults in the United States have high blood pressure, and it was a primary or contributing cause of death for almost 500,000 people in the United States in 2018 alone.   Yet, many people with hypertension take little heed of it. The …

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