Archive for Research
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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There may be an “AP” for that
It isn't the purpose of this Web site to keep you all abreast of new medical treatment options or medical technology. But, when we saw a recent article about a study on the use of mobile phone technology to improve glucose control in diabetics, it made us realize that those of you who are medical ...
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Top Five Conditions by Dollars Spent for Retirees
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (a division of the Department of Health and Human Services) recently reported on the 5 most expensive medical conditions treated in the elderly. The report indicates that nearly 1/3rd of total health care dollars spent were on the elderly, and a maj...
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amednews.com – PCMC Reduces Cost
A 1-year study by the University of California, Davis, Health System was reported on the amednews.com Web site, and was published in the May/June issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. The study shows that ". . . including patients in more of the treatment and care-planning d...
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Study Finds Electronic Rx Error Rate Equal to Handwritten
For those employers who have invested mega-dollars in electronic medical records and prescription writing tools, this study demonstrated that those electronic prescriptions have just as many errors in them as the old-fashioned handwritten ones that physician offices fax to the pharmacies. The st...