Author Archive
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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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New Clinics Open
A quick article to let you know about some new on-site clinics which opened recently, the employers and vendors involved. First, Haynes International (a manufacturer of metal alloys) partnered with Novia CareClinics to open a new on-site service for their 900 employees, some retirees and dependent...
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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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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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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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New Clinic Contracts Awarded
In the last couple of weeks we have noted the opening of new clinics, or the awarding of clinic management contracts, to various vendors. We'll do a quick review here. CareHere was awarded two contracts, one to manage a clinic in Denton, TX for city employees; and one at the Nashville Internati...
