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A new survey of mostly insurance and IT executives also finds the C-suite looking for business cases to justify big data expenditures.

Small businesses that have implemented health and wellness programs overwhelmingly report a positive impact on the bottom line. However, most of these employers still haven’t got the message.

Even as scientists predict DNA testing will transform medicine, advocates say that doctors and hospitals are ignoring existing tests that could help prevent thousands of cancer deaths and medical companies aren’t promoting their less-lucrative products enough.

Insiders say Sun Life wants to focus more on group and voluntary benefits and one investment firm or another could pay more than $1 billion for an annuities business to access a stable pool of funds for their investment-management operations.

Sales of variable annuities are near their pre-market crash levels, but they aren’t well understood by investors, and one analyst says their guaranteed income stream can get undersold to participants.

Today’s guest blogger is EBN’s own online managing editor Kathleen Koster, who spoke to employers looking to make Election Day a national holiday. Read on to see how these companies make their case, and as always, leave your thoughts in the comments. —Kelley M. Butler With less than two weeks before the 2012 election, GOOD, a Los Angeles-based company, hopes to spur employees to do their civic duty by giving them Nov. 6 off from…

Employers are keeping up their smoking-cessation efforts even as obesity grabs the headlines, says Provant’s Amy McAllister, and those who incentivize employees’ quit attempts are most likely to see health care costs reduced.

Rates of hearing loss in the workplace are rising rapidly and screenings and treatments to deal with the problem need to be strategized by employers who want to keep experienced workers.

In new Pew Research data, noticeably more adults lack confidence about their retirement savings compared to just a few years ago, and those aged 36 to 40 are the most concerned.

Small businesses that have implemented health and wellness programs overwhelmingly report a positive impact on the bottom line. However, most of these employers still haven’t got the message.