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Get an Assist to Your Goal From a Healthcare Coach

Rima Mathewson, one of a new breed of health professionals tasked with training and cheerleading clients into a state of wellness, is a registered nurse who works for Health Dialog, a Boston-based company that provides healthcare coaching as a benefit through companies and insurance plans to some 24 million people. Health Dialog coaches, 85 percent of whom are registered nurses, have access to insurance claims data so they know, for example, if a client has recently had open heart surgery or hasn't had a checkup lately to monitor hypertension. Mathewson first called Sakowich after he switched insurance plans in 2007, and she has proved an invaluable source, he says, of practical information and prodding.

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