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Last month, the Center for Health Value Innovation released its 2010 Value-Based Design Report - a study of more than 170 companies, representing more than 4 million covered lives, produced in partnership with Buck Consultants - which takes the national temperature on how value-based benefits designs are progressing in U.S. workplaces.

In recent years, a growing number of forward-thinking employers have taken a more up-front role in providing chronic care management to their employees.

Despite great advances in treating cancer - the five-year survival rate has improved to 68% - an estimated 1.52 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in the United States in 2010, and nearly 570,000 people were expected to die from the disease.

Some of you may remember exercise instructors such as Jane Fonda or the late Jack LaLanne. When I was a kid, my mom had Jack LaLanne exercise books.

Kelly Wilson is a return-to-work success story. In January 2009, her beloved father - the man she calls her best friend - became ill. He was in and out of the hospital several times before he died in July that year.

As the economy starts to stabilize, retirement-plan experts say plan sponsors need to stress certain elements of their retirement education and advice programs to get workers back on track with saving.

To make sense of the past and looming health care reform changes, employers may transfigure into the Roman god Janus this year, with one head focused on the decisions of 2010 and the other fixed on the future.

For once, we weren't trying to innovate, iterate or invest in something new. We simply wanted to successfully launch a consumer-driven health plan. We thought it would be easy, since many employers had already delved into these issues before us.

Richard Swanson is like any other hard-working American. He gets up each day, drives to work, puts in an eight- or nine-hour day, goes home and does the same thing all over again the next day. His routine is pretty unremarkable.

As a native to the D.C. area, I've gotten a daily dose of patriotism my whole life from having so many of the nation's premier museums and monuments almost literally in my own backyard.