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Steven
Understanding and Addressing “Hot Spots” Critical to Bending the Medicaid Cost Curve
An interesting report from PFCD on realizing cost savings in Medicaid.
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Steven
Employee Health and Absence Management in the Era of Health Care Reform http://bit.ly/jfzbSa
Almost one in two Americans has a chronic disease such as diabetes, cancer or heart disease, and the full cost of disability absences is ...
Chris
Aetna Inc., the third-largest health insurer in the U.S., will cut some co-payments on drugs aimed at preventing heart attacks after a study showed patients took their medicines and were healthier when there were no out-of-...
Steven
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease hosted a briefing on the use of health information technology for the management of chronic...
Presentations now available
Health Information Technology: An Invaluable Tool for Managing... fightchronicdisease.org
With chronic diseases driving costs, deaths, and disability, finding better ways to prevent and manage illness offers the greatest opportunity to curb this growing health care epidemic. Focusing on ways to promote greater care...
Graydon
Horrifying… phrma.org
“Horrifying,” that’s how one of my colleagues here described this item detailing the growing toll of the diabetes pandemic. The bottom line? One in four adults in the U.S. now has diabetes, a number that has doubled in just...
Chris
How Technology Can Help Fight Our Most Expensive Health Care Burden huffingtonpost.com
What is most exciting is that we are finally seeing the wireless generation being applied to help advance the care of chronic diseases and conditions.
Steven
Unless current health trends are reversed, five common, non-infectious diseases -- cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and ...
Chronic disease to cost $47 trillion by 2030, WEF says yourlife.usatoday.com
Cancer, diabetes, heart disease and lung disease kill 36 million people every year, experts say.
Steven
Watch the live webcast of the UN High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases being held in NY (Sept. 19-20)
Follow more updates on twitter via #UNSummit, #UNHLM, #NCDs
Steven
India to roll out world’s largest non-communicable diseases drive timesofindia.indiatimes.com
As many as 26 “mini interventions” will make up the world’s largestprogramme to combat non communicable diseases (NCDs) that will be launched by India soon.
The Diabetes Problem Continues to Grow Around the World phrma.org
A piece on the increasing, world-wide problem of diabetes in the Washington Post this past weekend should give us all pause.
Graydon
Yesterday, we were talking about a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that found that proper use of prescription medicines by Part D beneficiaries is helping to reduce non-drug medical...
Graydon
You should check-out the piece by Ken Thorpe that recently ran in U.S. News & World Report’s Health section. The piece is entitled: Health Reform That Passes the Buck Is Short-Sighted.
The AiIing Health of a Growing Nation online.wsj.com
India's underfunded, overstretched government-run health system—on which the vast majority of Indians rely—is riddled with danger.
New Math Needed for the Value of Medicines phrma.org
Last week we were talking a lot about the JAMA study showing how proper use of prescription medicines by Part D beneficiaries is helping to reduce overall Medicare non-drug medical expenditures.
Graydon
Controlling Asthma phrma.org
With today being World Asthma Day, PhRMA joins with public health officials, health organizations, and patient groups around the world to emphasize that you can control your asthma, the theme for 2012.
David
The National Bone Health Alliance launched its "2Million2Many" osteoporosis awareness campaign last week - check it out at...
Register now to attend the May 15 2Million2Many osteoporosis summit at the Kaiser Center for Total Health in Washington, DC.
In Celebration of National Women’s Health Week 2012 and National Osteoporosis Month, the National Bone Health Alliance (NBHA) invites you to a half-day educational summit for key health policy makers in Washington, DC. The...
Steven
Interesting new blog post from Ken Thorpe: A multinational perspective on fighting chronic disease in the workplace.
Historically, chronic diseases have posed challenges to U.S. companies, but now, the issue is becoming increasingly prevalent in ...
A multinational perspective on fighting chronic disease in the... fightchronicdisease.org
Chris
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The PFCD to Participate in National Employee Wellness Month fightchronicdisease.org
Graydon
Wanted to share my blog at PhRMA.org. Looking at interesting article in the New York Times suggesting that better management of a ...
With PhRMA’s annual meeting completed, everyone here is getting back into their more normal routines. So, I thought I’d start the week talking about a piece in today’s New York Times Health Section.
