Evidence-Based Dentistry Hopes To Redefine Dental Benefits
As more employers become savvy about applying evidenced-based medicine to determine medical benefits, it's only natural that some might want to see those concepts incorporated into dental plans.
Evidence-based dentistry is about, in part, ensuring that the right patient receives the appropriate procedure for the right condition at the right time.
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High Costs Drive Online Prescribing Push
WASHINGTON - Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online.
Officials in the public and private sectors say electronic prescriptions will make transactions more efficient, reduce medication errors and entice doctors to prescribe less expensive drugs.
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Electronic Prescriptions.
'Fruit Guys' Deliver Healthier Workplace Snacks
We've all heard the saying that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what if that apple becomes a carton of fresh apples, bananas, oranges and other seasonal fruits, delivered from local growers to your office each week?
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Why Raw Food Is Best
We are surrounded by different books and magazines that claim to know how we 'should' be eating. No matter if we're overweight or underweight, healthy or ill, there is a diet for us.
But the problem lies in the fact that there doesn't seem to be one answer to our diet and health woes. However, the raw food craze seems to be stirring up the medical field and making people believers in what it can offer.
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Raw Food.
Reducing Rx Copays Improves Medication Adherence
Reducing prescription drug copays for workers with chronic diseases increases their medication adherence, reports a group of doctors. Their study examined copays and utilization within the context of a disease management program.
Following a similar strategy used by Pitney Bowes in 2002, the employer in the study reduced its copays for medications treating heart diseases, diabetes, high cholesterol and asthma. Copays for generic medications were reduced from $5 to zero, while copays for brand-name drugs were lowered from $25 to $12.50.
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Evidence And Value-Based Medicines: Where Does One End And The Other Begin?
The issue of confluence between quality of care and cost was the highlight of yesterday's opening session at the World Congress' Evidence-Based Medicine Summit in Alexandria, Virginia.
Keynote speaker Margaret O'Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, began on a hopeful note:
"We're not where we need to be today, [but] we're seeing more and more about what needs to change."
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Quality of Care.
Encouraging a healthy lifestyle in the workplace
Should you do more to promote good health in your employees? This is a major consideration for many employers as health care costs continue to rise.
Thankfully, many employers already are promoting wellness, and often are surprised at the effect small changes in the workplace can have on employee health and on health care costs and productivity.
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Mid-Size Employer Turns To "Hybrid" CDHP Model
Sperian Protection, an equipment manufacturer, lowered its health care costs over the past years with some innovative tinkering with consumer-driven health care options and through a catchy communications program.
“Health expense typically ranks in the top 3 or 5 on the list of major expenses for a company our size,” remarked Michael Vittoria, HR director for Sperian, which is based in Smithfield, Rhode Island. “Any type of culture change you want to implement has to take place over time.”
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Taking A Big Picture Approach To Employees' Health
Some HR/benefit executives shake their heads, wondering why their disease management and wellness programs are not resonating with workers.
Wendy Lynch, executive director of the Health As Human Capital Foundation, told attendees yesterday at the Employer Health and Human Capital Congress that companies experiencing lackluster participation in health programs need to reexamine their corporate culture.
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