Dear Healthcare Intelligence Network Client,
With increased reimbursement and incentives for wellness and prevention efforts, health coaches are turning up in primary care offices, community clinics and hospitals — even at work sites. This week we feature the employer's take on health coaching, as viewed through their responses to our second annual Health Coaching survey.
Overall, the survey revealed some interesting industry-wide trends: a nearly 100 percent increase in the availability of face-to-face coaching, more physicians referring patients to health coaches, and a rise in the number of organizations using the Patient Activation Measure™ to determine participant success and program ROI.
Several respondents cited the important role of participant incentives in driving engagement in health coaching. We've just released the results of our second annual Health & Wellness Incentives survey, which you can download here at no cost.
Your colleague in the business of healthcare,
Patricia Donovan
Editor, Healthcare Business Weekly Update
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March 15, 2010
Vol. XII, No. 10
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This week's industry news
1.) Trends and Key Drivers of Physician EMR Adoption
Fifty-eight percent of U.S. physicians who do not use EMRs intend to purchase an EMR system within the next two years, according to a new report from Accenture. Today, just 6 percent of U.S. office-based physicians use a fully functioning system.
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2.) 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks: Telehealth and Telemedicine
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This 20-page resource provides actionable information from 139 healthcare organizations on their utilization of telehealth and telemedicine. This resource documents trends and metrics on current and planned initiatives in the use of telehealth and telemedicine, provides lessons from early adopters and identifies emerging applications of these technologies.
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3.) Top Three Targets of Employer Health Coaching Programs
An analysis of responses by employers to the Healthcare Intelligence Network second annual Health Coaching survey reveals slight differences from those of the overall respondent population — most notably in the areas of coaching focus, delivery methods, population health status improvement, ROI measurement methods and ROI.
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4.) Health Coaching Benchmarks, 2010 Edition: Operations and Performance Data for Optimal Program ROI and Participant Health Status
This resource analyzes responses of 212 healthcare organizations to HIN's second annual 2009 Survey on Health and Wellness Coaching. An all-new follow-up to the best-selling 2009 Health Coaching Benchmarks, the 2010 edition is packed with actionable new data on health coaching activity, with the latest metrics on the prevalence of health coaching, favored delivery methods, targeted populations and lifestyle conditions, preferred behavior change models, coaching case loads and much more.
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5.) Healthcare Business White Paper: Medical Home Disruptive Innovation for a New Primary Care Model
This white paper examines medical home models, their savings potential, and the implications for policymakers and key industry stakeholders. This paper also offers compelling arguments in favor of medical home adoption.
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6.) Massage Eases Anxiety, But No Better Than Simple Relaxation
A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety. This improvement resembles that previously reported with psychotherapy, medications or both. However, the trial also found massage to be no more effective than simple relaxation in a room alone with soft, soothing music.
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7.) Complementary and Alternative Medicine & 'Wellness' Guidelines, Second Edition
This resource is a 237-page toolbox of general information, guidelines and benefit interpretation for the effective clinical and resource management of alternative medicine and preventive healthcare services. Included in this resource are alternative medicine clinical review criteria guidelines, resources, references, Web sites and preventive healthcare ('wellness') guidelines.
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8.) Hospices Not Deactivating Defibrillators in Patients
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients admitted to hospice care who have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) are rarely having their ICDs deactivated and are receiving electrical shocks from these devices near the end of life.
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9.) hospice letter
An essential tool for hospice managers, this resource stays on top of the most current challenges facing hospice executives, including legislative scrutiny, the short average length of stay, Medicare and Medicaid reform, discussions about physician-assisted suicide, managed care and integration.
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10.) Recovery Act Funds Available for Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative
National organizations will have a key role in building a healthier nation as part of the new HHS Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative. HHS has made available $10 million in funding for national public or private non-profit organizations to help communities decrease smoking and obesity, increase physical activity and improve nutrition.
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11.) Profitable Partnerships in Disease Management: Community Collaborations that Enhance Care Access and Outcomes
This resource offers tips for structuring partnerships and maximizing the benefits, overcoming the challenges community partnerships can present and evaluating the impact these collaborations can have on program effectiveness. This 35-page special report features case studies from two healthcare organizations that successfully collaborate with community resources to create more robust disease management offerings, particularly for their Medicaid and Medicare members and patients.
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12.) HealthSounds Podcast: Embedded Case Managers — Navigating Care Transitions, Gaps in Care and Patient Compliance
The contributions of an embedded case manager to the practice quickly become evident, explains Diane Littlewood, R.N., regional manager of case management for health services, Geisinger Health Plan, which in turn bolsters physician buy-in for the program. She describes the upfront basics that help to ensure that health plan and provider expectations for embedded case management are met.
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