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Do Your Employees Understand How to Access & Use Their Benefits?
You're paying for benefits for your employees. Your corporate "mission" to provide good medical coverage and care is top-notch. And, yet, for some reason(s) your employees just aren't using the benefits to their max. They are confused over how their benefits work and may not use them to the fu...
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Small Employer Option
AMD Global Telemedicine and NuPhysicia Health of Texas recently announced the creation of a partnership offering onsite services ("The Working Clinic") for smaller, self-insured employers using dedicated "medics" and access to physicians immediately (promising the use of the same physician for chr...
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Premise Expands Brand and Services
Premise Health announced last month an expansion of its services beyond the on-site clinic realm, where it is a leading provider, to include near-site and virtual healthcare which includes the development of a "robust and comprehensive provider network." This is part of a program of investment i...
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Workplace Wellness – Finally a Comprehensive Guide & Analysis
Wellness programs have long stymied corporations in terms of "getting it right." Will employees enroll? Will they participate after enrollment? Which programs work the best? Which offerings are most widely used and accepted? Who knows? Well, we hope that this, the 2018 Employer Guide will...
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Another Blog – You May Be Interested In
We don't typically list blogs that are sponsored by vendors, but we became aware of one recently that you may want to check on from time-to-time. This one is hosted by Elation Health, an EMR vendor with several installations in on-site clinics. We'll add it as a resource on our opening page as...
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University of Michigan Guidelines for Opioid Use Post-Surgery
None of us can escape awareness about the catastrophic consequences of the use of opioids in America today. You hear about it every time you turn on the news, whether local or national. The costs are astounding (estimated at over $500 billion for 2015), and stopping the spread of opioid addicti...
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Another Reason Why Your Prescription Drug Costs are So High
If you are a patient, or an administrative manager of a clinic, you would never stop to think that the liquid medications prescribed every day (cancer drugs, eye drops, etc.) may all contain too much of that drug for the actual need, resulting in waste every time a vial is opened. Why would you? ...
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Is a Chiropractor in the future for your on-site clinic?
The National Association of Worksite Health Centers just published the findings from a project (done by their staff and with the assistance of a grant from the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress) on the potential impact of chiropractic services for employees at on-site clinics. This project incl...
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Coaching Platform Twine Works to Increase Treatment Adherence, Lower Medical Cost
With lack of patient adherence to treatment being a costly problem in the United States, MIT Media Lab spinout Twine Health has gained notice recently as a potential solution. Twine, a health activation platform, aims to improve health and lower medical costs. Recently, the startup has moved the...
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Telemedicine for Mental Health Services Soaring
Telemedicine for mental health services is soaring in the US in response to both the opioid abuse crisis and an increase in access to behavioral healthcare in general, according to the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) and telemedicine companies. NBGH also said that 56% of employers in 201...
