Archive for July, 2010
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Will Your Employees Accept Evidence-Based Medicine?
A study was published in the July, 2010 issue of Health Affairs, and summarized in the AAFP NEWS NOW recently. The study included both qualitative and quantitative data collection (with data collection completed during 2006-2007). The goal appeared to be to determine to what degree patients ...
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How can you “make” your employees take their medications?
Wow, did we really say that? Your goals shouldn't be to "make" your employees do anything, but rather to encourage and support them in making good decisions about their health care, right? But let's face it, getting patients to take their medications, on time and correctly, is a huge challenge ...
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Obesity Cost Calculator Available through CDC Web Site
The CDC is offering a new "Obesity Cost Calculator" to employers for their use in estimating not only the costs of obesity in the work force, but the potential savings you could achieve by better managing obesity in your employees (and, we assume, dependents). A good bit of data is needed to plu...
