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• Discovery Channel Office In London Opens On-Site Clinic

  In England, where the National Health Service is available to everyone, the Discovery Channel has opened a "medical and wellbeing centre" which will include physical therapy, onsite lab services, and "holistic primary and preventative healthcare."  This will be staffed and managed through a company...

• And. . . More on Wellness Programs

  Visit EBN to get "10 tips to help implement a successful wellness program."  Among them are Offer Biometric Screenings (see our "preaching to the choir" comments); Track Results; Offer Incentives; and in today's techno-centric environment, Provide Employees with Digital Tools - a fast-growing optio...

• Feel as Though You are Preaching to the Choir?

  Well, you're not alone.  According to a recent article posted on CNNMoney referencing the National Business Group On Health, "increasing employees' physical activity and managing their weight are large employers' top health priorities for 2015."  Examples cited were programs at JetBlue Airways and...

• AHA Urges Employers to Improve Health Screening at Work

  In a summer article in the professional journal, Circulation, the American Heart Association published a policy statement on the benefits of improved workplace screening for heart disease.  Some statistics provided included the projection that the direct medical cost of  treating cardiovascular di...

• New Data Source-MEPS

  I have to say, we are delinquent in not bringing this resource to your attention sooner.   We do have a link on our home page to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, however, were not aware until now of the MEPS data.  This is the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey conducted annually by...

• FAIR Health Cost Lookup Tool

  The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced this spring that it is designating FAIR Health's Cost Lookup Tool one of its QualityTools.  We have also added it to our list of Featured Resources in the right side bar of our home screen.  This service allows a consumer to look up a se...

• Helping Your Employees “Engage”

  All employers have difficulty getting employees to use the tools they offer them for improving their healthcare and reducing costs.  In a recent professional journal review, we found a listing of some tools you might consider offering or making your employees aware of which allow them to be better ...

• Integrating Behavioral Health with Primary Care

  We have, in the past, written about programs where primary care offices are truly integrating behavioral health in their services, with good success.  However, in a recent Medical Economics article (05/10/2014 issue, p24) there is a listing of various programs which offer strategies for doing this ...

• What healthcare apps help your employees? How would you know?

  We are not posting this article to recommend any specific vendor or application, but we do want to make you aware that there is a growing body of data out there to support the use of healthcare aps to assist patients in a variety of ways - like quitting smoking, losing weight, compliance with medica...

• Inpatient Admissions Continue to Decline

  We have posted information in the past, statistics, etc. about the cost of inpatient hospitalization versus outpatient, and the importance of an educated workforce who can better make decisions about what care they really need, when and where.  However, in the February 24, 2014 issue of Modern Heal...