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20 Jul AVOIDING THE #3 CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE USA: US HOSPITALS & WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT – PART 2

Posted at 14:18h in For Patients

The gauntlet had been laid. Don Berwick and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) had challenged hospitals in America to save 100,000 lives. Time was ticking away, educational programs, mentoring, training had begun but would they achieve the goal? Eighteen months later on June 14th 2006 at...

02 Jul HOW THE “I FEEL FINE” SYNDROME IS COSTING YOU MILLIONS – PART 4

Posted at 14:40h in For Businesses

In the last blog we addressed specific occasions that prevent employees from knowing where to go for the right test at the right time, with the right provider, and at the right cost. In this blog we will examine specific strategies that companies use to...

20 Jun HOW THE “I FEEL FINE” SYNDROME IS COSTING YOU MILLIONS – PART 3

Posted at 14:39h in For Businesses

In the last blog we took an honest look at what is accomplished by closing our gaps in care for primary and secondary prevention. Primary prevention is defined as taking actions to prevent a disease from occurring. So identifying and addressing metabolic syndrome, the “pre-disease” for diabetes,...

20 Jun MAKING THE TURN – CHANGING TO OUTCOME BASED WELLNESS

Posted at 14:32h in For Businesses

Recently an HR team met to plan next year’s health benefits. It started with a review of last year’s changes and outcomes. Health costs went up 5%, but the projection for this year was closer to 10% with the new Accountable Care Act changes. Their...

20 Jun IMPLEMENTING OUTCOME BASED WELLNESS – MAKING THE SWITCH

Posted at 14:31h in For Businesses

How does a company switch directions to a plan that will actually improve the health of their employees and reduce health care costs? Using the paradigm for effective change from the book Switch by Chip and Dan Heath, the analogy of a rider changing the direction of...

20 Jun AVOIDING THE #3 CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE USA: US HOSPITALS & WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT – PART 1

Posted at 14:14h in For Patients

Preventable Adverse Events (PAE’s) are the #3 cause of death in the US, leading to between 210,000 and 440,000 American deaths annually. This must stop. But how? The answer involves one of the best stories in US healthcare history. It started when Dr. Donald Berwick, the co-founder,...

20 Jun FORBES REPORT STATES FAIL ON TRANSPARENCY – HOW ARE YOU DOING?

Posted at 14:03h in For Businesses

Transparency transforms employee’s relationship with health care. Actionable data delivered in a way that allows informed decision making has the potential to save tens of millions for both organizations and individuals at risk for health benefit expenditures. The Accountable Care Act requires making transparency information more...

20 May HOW THE “I FEEL FINE” SYNDROME IS COSTING YOU MILLIONS – PART 2

Posted at 14:38h in For Businesses

In the last blog we examined the fact that during the early phases of disease development we don’t feel symptoms. Despite this, the disease is developing in our body and we can discover and cure it, but over 80% of us don’t take action. So why...

20 May HOW THE “I FEEL FINE” SYNDROME IS COSTING YOU MILLIONS – PART 1

Posted at 14:36h in For Businesses

How could this go on all these years without us discovering diabetes, heart disease, or cancer in your body and not acting? To understand this we just need to ask a person with pre-cancer, early cancer, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, or heart disease how they...

20 May WILL YOU DIE FROM THE #3 CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE USA?

Posted at 14:19h in For Patients

In the 2013 September edition of Journal of Patient Safety Article Asks: Will You Die from the #3 Cause of Death in the USA? Ask most people what the #1 & #2 causes of death are and they will usually know they are heart disease and cancer. Ask...