Case Management Advisor – November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012
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Lifestyle coaching improves health, saves money
Providers and insurers are starting to add lifestyle coaching to the range of interventions they provide to help motivate people to take charge of their own health and make changes in the way they live that help them live healthier, more productive lives. -
Coaches help members improve health
Health care costs for participants in a health and wellness coaching program were $19 to $22 per member per month less than for a control group in a study by an independent researcher conducted for Medica, a health insurance company with headquarters in Minneapolis. -
Wellness solutions include health coaching
Based on the positive outcomes of a health coaching pilot for its employees with diabetes, Advocate Health Care, an integrated healthcare system based in Oak Brook, IL, now offers health coaching to its patients, employees, spouses, and employer groups as part of its comprehensive wellness solution. -
MDs, pharmacists partner to manage chronic conditions
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group in Chicago is partnering with Walgreens to counsel patients with chronic illnesses on their disease and medication and to support them in following their medication regimen. So far, patients in the pilot have increased their medication adherence on five different drugs by 5%. -
Reap the rewards of non-targeted HIV screening
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has been calling on EDs to routinely test patients for HIV since 2006, the practice is hardly widespread. -
Seeing the forest and the trees
If a health system wins a major national quality award, it must be doing something right, but also something different from other organizations, right? Ask one and likely at some point, a spokesperson will says something about focusing on the patient and striving to improve. But not everyone.