Archive for General
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City of Lexington Opens On-Site Clinic
Marathon Health was awarded the contract for this clinic last year, but the clinic itself just recently opened. Interestingly, the medical director for the new facility is Dr. David French (formerly of Toyota). Recruitment of primary care providers is tough these days, but getting one with on-si...
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Johns Hopkins and Pepsico Partner-up for Improved Quality & Price Stability
It was announced this week (December 8, 2011) that PepsiCo has entered into an agreement with Johns Hopkins (brokered by Mercer) to allow employees and dependents (of which PepsiCo has about 250,000) to have certain cardiac and complex joint surgeries done for a specified bundled payment. The paym...
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MBGH Provides Tips to Improve Employee Health
The Midwest Business Group on Health is offering guidance to employers based on a five-year study, "Identifying the Triggers and Barriers to Engaging Employees in their Health Benefits and Wellness Programs." Those recommendations include "Consider(ing) the company's culture," including both "De...
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Care Continuum Alliance Sponsors New Blog
Care Continuum Alliance announced a new blog, called HealthSmarts. The blog was started in early August and hopes to provide a ".. credible, trustworthy community for poeple in our industry." We have had really good luck with articles, webinars, etc. provided by the Care Continuum Alliance i...
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Disney Medical Officer Receives Recognition
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts has their own on-site clinic program, and it was announced this week that their Chief Medical Officer, Pamela Hymel, M.D. was recognized with the Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the NBG...
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Health Insurance Costs UP 9+%
Many recent news articles are quoting this statistic with alarm. No kidding! Any way that one looks at the number or the graph, they see continuing decline of the health care value construct. If you want to go beyond the news clips and get some of the background data, go to the source - this ...
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NASCAR, On-site Clinics, and Medicine
Forbes had a recent article that we should all read and re-read about one of the key innovators in medicine, Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Harvard, labeling him as one of the most powerful doctors "you never heard of." We will pardon their misuse of the preposition at the end of their description, bu...
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Contracts and RFPs – Transforming Your Vision
OK, let's go out and address the grass issue by getting a "riding mower." The problem is that whatever you describe is what you will get if you use the request-for-proposal (RFP) approach. The RFP needs to be pretty specific if you want the end product to match your vision. If you have e...
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Retail Medicine Gains New Credibility with USA Today Article
The news here is not that the retail clinics are booming. The news is that it is considered news in one of the most important consumer outlets in the country (USA TODAY). An article in this publication, on a "big news" Monday is going to lend tremendous credibility to retail medicine. That's O...
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Urgent Care – “Yeah, we’ve got an app for that – “
'Remember when a phone was for calling someone? Now a phone can be used for any number of things and the old dial phones seem like antiques compared to the smart phones and WEB based tools. With Google buying up phone resources, the seamless WEB/PHONE interface is certainly on us, or soon coming...