Archive for Research
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HHS Works on Managing Multiple Chronic Conditions
Medical Directors - HHS has been working since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on understanding how to better meet the needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). In December of 2010 the Department released a paper on the subject. Those of you responsible for well-esta...
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Robert Wood Johnson Takes Note of Workplace Health
Review: Issue Brief No. 17, The Center for Studying Health System Change: Workplace Clinics: A Sign of Growing Employer Interest in Wellness. This is a product of a grant by one of the most prestigious organizations operating in the health care space today. When the RWJF takes note of so...
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Staffing Concerns for the PCMH
University of Michigan researchers are publishing the results of a study they have completed in which they attempted to assess the effects of redistributing chronic disease care workload among PCPs and specialists in the patient-centered medical home model. This model is a key component of on-sit...
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AHRQ Creates New Web Site for Patient Centered Medical Home
The federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently launched a new Web site, the "Patient Centered Medical Home Resource Center", www.pcmh.ahrq.gov To quote the opening screen, "The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognizes that revitalizing the Nation's primary...
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Resources
Over the last few days we have come across more than one good resource for the medical directors in your on-site clinics. Instead of posting several "articles," we felt we could mention them in a linear fashion here. We feel they are all helpful but at a high level because they focus on things l...
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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...
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Obesity as a driver of costs – what can be done?
Look "across the pond." Unilever, with more than 7,500 employees in the UK and Ireland, rolled out a program to help its employees better manage their weight. Called the "Fit Business" program, it was offered to approximately 1,600 employees in both office and factory jobs. The program offe...
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Survey Shows Uphill Battle in Improving Employee Health
The 15th Annual National Business Group on Health/Towers Watson Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care reveals just how difficult it is to change employee behavior when it comes to healthy lifestyle choices and taking responsibility for their own health. The survey, conducted from Nove...
