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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 […]

The Employer Health Care Cost & Quality Congress (EHCQ) has invited Stuart M. Sutley, M.B.A. to discuss the benefits of onsite employee health clinics for mid-size and large employers.  The Johns Hopkins Onsite Employee Health […]

Stuart M. Sutley, M.B.A., has been invited to speak at the 2018 Human Resource Executive® Health & Benefits Leadership Conference.  His presentation is entitled Aligning General Population and Occupational Health Strategies: A 360 Approach to […]

Integrated Benefits Institute, the leading research organization in health and productivity, welcomes Rebekah Montcalmo to its 2018 IBI Annual Forum. Rebekah, who directs Employer Programs at Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions, will speak about workplace behavioral […]

There’s a common misperception that onsite employee health clinics are only cost-effective for organizations with 800 or more employees. That’s why the findings of a recent independent analysis of 25 Johns Hopkins onsite employee health […]

When the visionary geriatrics doctor Bruce Leff looks at his older patients, he sees one powerful way to prevent them from getting sicker: Keep them as far from the hospital as possible. Which means figuring […]

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 […]

Arden & GEM CSU were winners at the Health Business Awards this month in the ‘Patient Data’ category for their work to develop a Risk Stratification solution which helps organizations predict behaviors such as unplanned admissions, and […]

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has named Johns Hopkins POC-IT Guides™ executive director Paul G. Auwaerter, M.D., M.B.A., FIDSA, as the Society’s new president. “Infectious disease is an incredibly dynamic field with our expertise adding […]

Walgreens announced recently the launch of its new Center for Health & Wellbeing Research, a digital space hosting more than 40 Walgreens outcome studies from the past six years including studies by faculty in Johns […]

Creating a structured, hospital-based program to support caregivers as they cope with adverse clinical events has saved one hospital almost $2 million per year, according to a study in the Journal of Patient Safety. “We […]

Consider this: for every 100 employees in the workforce, 5 percent will have a history of cancer and 27.1 percent of those employees will be in treatment for cancer. An overwhelming majority of employees who […]

Patricia (Patty) M.C. Brown, the president of Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, and senior vice president of managed care and population health for Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been inducted into the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Business […]

The CEO Roundtable on Cancer has accredited Johns Hopkins with the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ recognizing its efforts to reduce the risk of cancer for its employees and covered family members. The Johns Hopkins Managing […]

Saving their hospital nearly $2 million a year wasn’t the goal for Albert Wu and Cheryl Connors when they created a program to support traumatized colleagues. Wu, a physician and health services researcher, and Connors, a […]

PlanSource Eclipse, recognized as one of the top HR and Tech conferences for large employers, welcomes our Executive Director Mark Cochran to talk about the Johns Hopkins Managing Cancer at Work program. This is just one of […]