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Includes excerpts from The Self Insurer, January 2019 The numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are staggering: nearly half of U.S. adults have at least one chronic disease such as diabetes, […]

Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership (J-CHiP) is featured in a Healthy Policy Investigation in the November 2018 edition of JAMA Network Open.  The investigation asks the question, “Is the Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership associated with improved […]

Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions physician consultant Dr. Bruce Leff is featured in the December 10th issue of Senior Housing News in an article entitled Inside Welltower’s Efforts to Create a Quality Framework for Assisted Living. Dr. Leff […]

ACG® System to be used across Northern Italy to address health care challenges Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions has been awarded a multi-year contract to thoroughly and accurately analyze the health care data of more than […]

Jeanne Clark, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins, has been awarded the inaugural Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Advancing the […]

  The incidence of cancer is going up. And an overwhelming majority of employees who have received a cancer diagnosis—particularly those with breast cancer—either want to or need to keep working through treatment. And employers […]

Johns Hopkins University ranks No. 12 on U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the Best Global Universities and among the top 20 in 10 different subject areas. Among U.S. schools, Johns Hopkins ranks […]

Work Stride: Managing Cancer at Work co-developer Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, was named a winner of this year’s WebMD Health Hero Awards. In its 12th year, the awards honor individuals who are working to change the […]

This year marks the 125th anniversary of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The school opened its doors in 1893 with 16 students in spite of “extremely lofty and severe requirements for admission,” according to […]

Dr. Edward Bernacki, Director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Johns Hopkins, shares his research regarding the impact of long term opioid use on employees injured at work in the December 2017 […]

Work Stride: Managing Cancer at Work co-developer Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, was featured in the September 16, 2018 edition of the Wall Street Journal.  The article, entitled Cancer Coaches Help Guide Patients During and After […]

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the PICU Up! program are featured in Parents magazine‘s 2018 list of the 20 most innovative children’s hospitals.  The designation, based on a comprehensive survey sent to members of the Children’s […]

Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions Director, Rebekah Montcalmo, will be sharing the benefits of supporting employees with cancer as she outlines Work Stride: Managing Cancer at Work at the Cancer Support Community’s Affiliate Leadership Conference on August 23rd […]

Primary, or complex, motor stereotypies (CMS) are the purposeless, rhythmic body, hand or arm movements made over and over by children who are otherwise developing normally. There is no medication available to treat CMS.  Johns Hopkins […]

Can you imagine a pediatric ICU patient riding a tricycle through the halls…wires, tubes and all?  Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar can.  And she’s been part of making it a reality in the pediatric ICU at the […]

The Johns Hopkins ACG® System team has published research in BMC Medicine that reports on the development and testing of three measures of ‘high-risk prescription opioid use’ that can be derived from pharmacy claims data.  In addition to potential […]

OneCare Vermont, a large ACO, is a featured case study on The Commonwealth Fund website for May 2018.  The case study highlights a Medicaid pilot program in which OneCare assumes financial risk for about 20% of […]

Lillie D. Shockney, R.N., B.S., M.A.S., is featured on the AARP website in an article entitled “Nurse Navigators Help Patients Cope with Complex Health Issues“.  Lillie is the co-founder of Johns Hopkins Work Stride: Managing Cancer […]

Professor Jonathan Weiner, codeveloper of the Johns Hopkins ACG System, and professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Mark Cochran, Ph.D., executive director at Johns Hopkins HealthCare […]

Presentation of the Starfield Award. (Left to right) Professor Jonathan Weiner, executive director of research and ACG System Co-developer; Sangeeta Saran, associate director of Planned Care at East Berkshire CCG; Kumar Subramaniam, executive officer for […]

Baltimore, April 5, 2018 – From the April issue of Dome, A Publication for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Family The Power of Psychological First Aid By Judy F. Minkove To understand the mental toll of a disaster, […]

Medrave Software, along with partner Ensolution (Johns Hopkins’ Nordic distributor) have won a contract to supply their risk stratification solution to 6 hospitals and 40 primary care practices in Norway.  The solution, which includes the Johns […]

Professor Jonathan Weiner, codeveloper of the Johns Hopkins ACG System, and professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kumar Subramaniam, executive officer for Population Health Analytics at […]

The Johns Hopkins ACG® System held its annual symposium at the Devonshire Place Conference Centre in Leicester on Tuesday 13th March. The event was attended by an engaged audience of around 60 people, including ACG […]

Registration is open for the Third Annual Patient-Provider Collaboration Conference.  This year’s conference is entitled Making Patient-Centered Care a Reality: The Journey Continues.  It will be held on June 15, 2018 from 8:00 AM – 4:30 […]