Archive for Research

  • Insurer Research Finds Benefit of PCMH Insurer Research Finds Benefit of PCMH

    It is no news to those of you out there who provide on-site services that a patient-centered medical home model is a key factor in getting and keeping employees healthy; to say nothing of saving money in the process.  But, WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer covering more than 34 million lives ...

  • AHRQ/Mathematica Research on PCMH and Complex Patients AHRQ/Mathematica Research on PCMH and Complex Patients

    The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in conjunction with Mathematica completed a study of five different medical practices to attempt to begin to identify key components they had in common in successfully implementing patient-centered medical homes.   The outcome was published in the Ann...

  • MBGH Provides Tips to Improve Employee Health 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...

  • Pay-for-Performance (What's old is new - or at least updated) Pay-for-Performance (What’s old is new – or at least updated)

    Highmark (a Blue Cross/Blue Shield corporation) reported that its Quality Blue program has demonstrated "clear patterns of improved patient safety and clinical care for our members."   They cite data for things like mammography screening rates, diminished Central Line Associated Bloodstream (CLAB)...

  • Cost Savings Through Adherence to Level I Pathways Cost Savings Through Adherence to Level I Pathways

    The US Oncology Network announced in a news release this month that a second study on the use of Level I Pathways for the treatment of a specific cancer has been completed and demonstrates significant cost savings without sacrificing quality of care or outcomes.   In this case, the study specifica...

  • Obesity and Lost Productivity Obesity and Lost Productivity

    Two separate studies report dramatic costs associated with obesity in the work force.  You can't pick up a newspaper or magazine (or download a newscast) without hearing something about the problem of obesity in the United States today.  These two studies just amplify the concern.  One was "simpl...

  • Medicare Data, Private Research on Hospital Quality Medicare Data, Private Research on Hospital Quality

    While the data we are pointing you to here is all on Medicare patients (older, sicker??) the resource and findings are worth noting.   HealthGrades conducted a study using CMS data for more than 40Million hospital records covering 27 medical diagnoses and/or procedure types at all of the nonfedera...

  • Medical Home Models Medical Home Models

    A core principle of the on-site medical clinic (at least the successful ones) is to be a "medical home" for the employees and dependents they serve.  It is one of the biggest differentiating factors between the on-site clinic and your employee's own private physician office.   As a result, it isn...

  • Diabetes Management Diabetes Management

    A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital demonstrated that there is a relationship between the number of interactions between a physician and the level of control of diabetes in a patient.   Those of you working in on-site clinics could have predicted this finding.   The study, pub...

  • NASCAR, On-site Clinics, and Medicine 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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