Source: DHHS What is this about? This edition of Connections provides an advanced copy of the proposed changes to the current rules implementing the privacy and confidentiality provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to be introduced in early 2021. The document is called “Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy… Continue Reading ›
Source: Avidon Health What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a recently released special report that uses authoritative sources to document the usual additional health and productivity costs associated with unhealthy lifestyle choices. Using a variety of peer-reviewed articles, the authors have constructed a very useful framework for educating senior management and all… Continue Reading ›
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a recently published article that gives us a practical and systematic methodology and set of recommendations to reduce low value or “unnecessary” adult primary care use. The article contains a test of more than 409 specific recommendations representing 178 unique opportunities to… Continue Reading ›
Source: Cigna What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a recently released, very useful, 80-page report on the level of resilience among U.S children and youth, their parents and the U.S. workforce. The effects of COVID-19 on the resilience of both populations are included and the report uses a survey methodology to establish… Continue Reading ›
Source: National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a very useful summary infographic on the effects of COVID-19 on the mental health of American workers. It comes from a think tank funded primarily by the Blues. (NIHCM) The data insights provided in this infographic give tangible… Continue Reading ›
What is this about? The document in this edition of Connections is the latest Solution Set and addresses options and alternatives for how wellness professionals might modify their programs after COVID-19. A summary of current research on COVID-19 is provided along with an overall assessment of the “big picture.” A concluding excerpt is reproduced below.… Continue Reading ›
Source: Lancet Public Health What is this about? The document highlighted in this edition of the Connections newsletter is a newly published study from the British Journal Lancet Public Health. The article reports on an extensive modifiable health risk analysis of U.S.health care costs using a cross-comparison technique on two very extensive claims databases. The… Continue Reading ›
Source: JAMA What is this about? The document in this edition of Connections is a comprehensive 22-page article from JAMA that provides a great deal of health care cost summary information for the period 1996 to 2016 and a great look at condition-specific average cost information and patterns that can be linked back to targeted wellness program interventions. … Continue Reading ›
What is this about? The document in this edition of Connections is a recent article from the British Medical Journal that uses 2 major American long-term epidemiological studies (The Nurses’ Health Study – N= 73,196 and the Health Professions Follow-up Study – N= 33, 366). These 2 landmark prospective cohort studies are used in this study… Continue Reading ›
What is this about? The document in this edition of Connections is the latest Solution Set and addresses options and alternatives for how wellness professionals might modify their programs after COVID-19. A summary of current research on COVID-19 is provided along with an overall assessment of the “big picture.” A concluding excerpt is reproduced below.… Continue Reading ›