News

The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been named the #3 hospital in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Honor Roll. Our mission is to bring the best of Johns Hopkins – one of the world’s leading […]

Cancer doesn’t stop during a pandemic. Cancer screenings can increase the chances of finding certain cancers early when they are most likely to be treated successfully. See our guidelines for identifying safe screening sites. Click here […]

Businesses and social activities across the country are slowly reopening to a world profoundly changed by the coronavirus pandemic, which remains a very real and potentially dangerous public health risk. So, as we resume our […]

Even as the country slowly begins to reopen, people over 60—especially those with preexisting health conditions like heart and lung disease, diabetes and cancer—remain especially vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19. Alicia Arbaje, M.D., M.Ph.H, Ph.D., […]

Is it safe to go to the doctor? Even as much of the country is slowly re-opening, many cities, counties and states continue to enforce stay-at-home policies. Because of this, many people are postponing their […]

In many American households, school days have led to school daze. As the school year winds down, so is the novelty of virtual schooling, and parents are finding it increasingly challenging to keep their young […]

Job loss. Financial uncertainty. Juggling home schooling with work demands. Self-isolation and “quarantine fatigue.” For so many of us, our mounting stress and anxiety caused by the coronavirus pandemic are challenging our best efforts to […]

Adversity. We all are facing it in one way or another as we try to adjust to the drastic disruption of our lifestyle and routines caused by the coronavirus pandemic. And many of the challenges […]

Work Stride: Managing Cancer at Work co-developer Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, has been named among the 2020 PM360 ELITE 100 in the Master Educators category. Now in its sixth year, the PM360 ELITE (Exceptional • Leaders • Innovators • […]

Although most Americans continue to shelter in place to protect themselves from the coronavirus and “flatten the curve,” many others find themselves needing to go into public spaces. While scientists and public health experts advocate for […]

Many families are doing some serious juggling, trying to work from home and care for the kids, all while trying to keep everyone safe and healthy. For those living in households with small and school-age […]

While we’re all spending more time at home, we are probably also snacking more. Are some snacks better—and safer—than others? Melanie Newkirk, a registered dietitian, nutritionist and the clinical manager of Johns Hopkins All Children’s […]

If you have a cough, a fever or difficulty breathing, and you are worried that you may have COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, here are recommendations from Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., senior […]

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are working from home these days. Under normal circumstances, telecommuting can offer a pleasant break from your daily routine. But this situation is far from normal. Harpreet […]

During times of crisis, it’s more important than ever to have the tools and resources to maintain a healthy workforce and do our part to help keep our global community safe. As the new coronavirus […]

• What’s the Cost of the Mind-Body Connection
• Do You (Really) Know What’s Driving Your Health Care Costs?
• How Employers Can Promote Cancer Screenings

Quest Diagnostics introduced the Johns Hopkins Balance program in September 2019 to help employees understand their behavioral health risk and facilitate access to high-quality care. In February, Quest recognized its Employee Health team and the Balance […]

An Analytics-Driven Approach to Managing Population Health Register now! Join the Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions team and customers from around the world in Baltimore’s beautiful downtown waterfront for the 2020 Solutions and ACG System International User Conference. […]

An Analytics-Driven Approach to Managing Population Health Save the date! Join the Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions team and customers from around the world in Baltimore’s beautiful downtown waterfront for the 2020 Solutions and ACG System International User […]

Johns Hopkins Caring for the Caregiver: Implementing RISE program was featured on Maryland Public Television’s “State Circle” in late September. Valuable information was shared on how healthcare institutions throughout the country and around the world are benefiting […]

Johns Hopkins Caring for the Caregiver: Implementing RISE program was featured on NPR radio in Maryland recently. The WYPR program “On the Record” broadcast an in-depth interview with Maryland Patient Safety Center’s interim president and CEO, Bonnie DiPietro, […]

Johns Hopkins innovative CAPABLE program – that allows seniors to remain at home, functional and safe as they age – was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition.   The piece features Betty Givens, an 83-year-old who wants to […]

Johns Hopkins’ Brief Opioid Overdose Knowledge (BOOK) program was featured in the Fall 2019 edition of Hopkins Brain Wise in an article entitled Low Cost Intervention Reduces Risk of Opioid Overdose. Kelly Dunn and colleagues Cecilia Bergeria […]

• Educate patients about opioid addiction & overdose
• INFOGRAPHIC: The cost of employees’ poor health
• Bend the health care cost curve

DECIDE, Johns Hopkins’ diabetes self-management program, has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) as an example of behavioral and social science innovation. DECIDE program developer Dr. Felicia […]

• Support your employees’ emotional health
• Help your employees during cancer treatment
• Diabetes prevention ROI = $55,000

Wouldn’t it be great if cancer could be detected early by a simple blood test? That’s just what scientists at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins have created, and a newly formed Baltimore-based company […]

A team from the Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health Information Technology has published a new paper in the Journal of Population Health Management called “Integrating Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health into Population Health Analytics: A Conceptual […]

• CASE STUDY: Lower costs through Care Coordination
• Early mobility in the Pediatric ICU
• INFOGRAPHIC: Six Steps to Relaxation

Ian Grant, M.P.H., C.P.H., spoke at the 2019 Human Resource Executive® Health & Benefits Leadership Conference. His session Innovative Technology-Based Solutions for Managing Diabetes and Musculoskeletal Conditions, highlighted current trends and research, presented new and innovative […]

Photo: Work Stride co-developer Lillie Shockney celebrates with Dawn Aubel, Director of Global Patient Relations for Novartis Work Stride: Managing Cancer at Work and Novartis were recognized as the Most Valuable Collaboration at the 2019 eyeforpharma […]

The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been named the #4 hospital – in the world – in Newsweek Magazine’s recent list of The 10 Best Hospitals in the World. In addition, the Johns Hopkins University School […]

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has been named the #1 Nursing School in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 list of best graduate schools. In addition to outstanding graduate programs, the JHU School […]

• Creating a Supportive Workplace for Cancer Patients
• INFOGRAPHIC:Nine Ways to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
• Improving Mobility and Activity in the Hospital

A recent article in TIME magazine noted that while rates of new cancer cases and cancer deaths have fallen in the U.S. over the past few decades, certain cancers are becoming more common among younger Americans.  Researchers […]

New research suggests that following the American Heart Association’s guidelines for maintaining heart health can also drastically reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The American Heart Association (AHA) has identified seven cardiovascular risk […]

Johns Hopkins innovative CAPABLE program – that allows seniors to remain at home, functional and safe as they age – was featured in a Kaiser Health News piece entitled Frail Seniors Find Ways to Live […]

Innovations in health care technology – in particular technologies that make “hospital at home” models of care possible – were featured at CES 2019’s Digital Health Summit. As described in an article in MobiHealthNews, experts […]

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

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, […]

• CASE STUDY: Not all frail patients are high cost
• INFOGRAPHIC: Cost of employees’ poor health
• Lifestyle changes for the workforce

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 […]

• CASE STUDY: Data is the first step in provider engagement
• Tis the season for depression
• Creating a culture of health in the workplace

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 […]

• Healthy Employees = Productive Workplace
• Do you know what’s driving your healthcare costs?
• A cancer diagnosis doesn’t have to end your working life.

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 […]

• Cutting costs for high-risk opioid users:  New published research
• Four of the top 10 children’s hospitals implement the Johns Hopkins PICU Up!™ program.  Find out why.
• Clinicians routinely experience anguish and grief while on the job.  Learn more about creating a peer support program.

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 […]

• Learn how to manage your greatest health care expenditure.
• Johns Hopkins programs address diabetes prevention and self-management.
• ACG^® System has become an industry standard as risk adjustment and predictive analytics software.

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 […]

• Stay informed of the latest developments in risk adjustment and predictive modeling at the ACG System’s 2018 International Conference
• Dr. Bruce Leff’s vision has been to improve care for seniors by keeping them out of the hospital
• Retaining your hospitalists can reduce health care costs by $800 per case and decrease length of stay by a half-a-day 

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 […]

• Join the Johns Hopkins ACG System team at the ACG System 2018 International Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
• Disaster mental health pioneer, George Everly Jr., Ph.D. shares his expertise on stopping the emotional bleeding of victims of natural and man-made disasters.
• A cancer diagnosis can cause significant financial hardship and stress. Here are some facts about the cost of cancer care and its financial impact.

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 […]

• “Our finding revolutionizes how we think about managing pain after an employee sustains a workplace injury.” –Edward J. Bernacki, M.D., M.P.H.
• Activity and Mobility Promotion programs improve care and reduced costs. Early rehabilitation of hospitalized patients can reduce muscle weakness, physical impairments and delirium.
• Jeremy Walston, M.D. shares his thoughts about the important role of frailty research and frailty assessment in clinical settings for improving patient outcomes.

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 […]

• As employers search for ways to maintain a healthy workforce while reducing costs, onsite clinics are a viable resource for managing chronic conditions and promoting wellness.
• A patient receiving a cancer diagnosis is a stressful experience. Stress can increase just from work and family responsibilities. Here’s how to help your patients through the experience.
• Johns Hopkins experts bring their knowledge to the world, supporting the health care mission of leading health systems, plans, and large employers. Learn more.

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 […]

• Find out how a Johns Hopkins program can support your hospital’s efforts to improve patient engagement, starting with creating a culture of patient-centered care. 
• Sanjay Desai, M.D., shares his thoughts about the important role of point-of-care technology in today’s medical training. 
• Considering a new business partner? Use this Johns Hopkins due diligence tool to get all the information you need to guide your decision making.

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 […]

• When facing a cancer diagnosis, an educated workforce feels safe and connected to the work environment. Learn about this program’s impact on managers and employees.
• The app boasts more than 3,000 anatomy structures, enabling the easy exploration of bones, muscles and connective tissue in a medically accurate format that resembles life itself.
• Easy access. Administrative efficiency. The web-based PolicyLogic management application solves the expanding digital needs of your complex health care organizations.

On May 1, The Johns Hopkins Hospital will dedicate The John G. Bartlett Specialty Practice. A fitting tribute to a professor and longtime chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University […]

A diagnosis of cancer can be devastating, but what happens when a person must walk the line between patient and employee? One in every two men and one in every three women will have a […]

• Johns Hopkins’ Quality Improvement consultants help health plans develop and sustain a strong QI program to improve their NCQA scores.
• The ACG System—a population health analytics tool—launched a new website providing a digital experience that is simple, relevant and engaging.
• Richard Safeer, M.D., an expert on employee health and wellness, talks about why a culture of health is good for employees and smart for employers.

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Welltower Inc., the Toledo-based real estate investment trust whose portfolio includes a number of senior housing centers across the country, have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to create improved care and […]

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing professor, and developer of the Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program has been awarded the 2016 Senior Service American Senior Scholar Award for Research Related to Disadvantaged […]

Johns Hopkins clinicians have come together with Under Armour to provide clinical and research-based guidance in four key pillars of health and wellness — sleep, fitness, activity and nutrition — to inform and empower Under […]

Sapna Kudchadkar, M.D., and her PICU Up! clinical team were awarded a 2016 Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Award for Physicians and Care Teams. The annual award, given by the  Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians, honors the physicians and […]

• A geriatric program developed and tested at Johns Hopkins saves money and provides a safe environment to support older adults who want to age at home.
• Johns Hopkins physicians, nurses, designers and engineers are collaborating with Apple on a mobile app designed to empower heart attack patients during their recovery.
• The Johns Hopkins ACG® System continues to improve to better identify and measure health strategies for your population—and drive positive results. Learn more about V11.1.

When a family member is diagnosed with cancer, the repercussions are widely felt, not only at home but also in the workplace. Caregivers may struggle to figure out when and what to tell co-workers and […]

Diabetes Care, a publication from the American Diabetes Association, published an article comparing the effectiveness of three delivery modalities of the Johns Hopkins Decision-making Education for Choices In Diabetes Everyday (DECIDE) Program. Research revealed that […]

Baltimore, November 30 2016 – From the November issue of Dome, A Publication for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Family The Family Business By Patrick Smith While faculty and staff members at Johns Hopkins engage in the cutting-edge […]

• Early mobilization of adult and pediatric patients “bends the cost curve” by improving patient outcomes, reducing length of stay, and decreasing readmissions. Learn more.
• Guided Care has been shown to reduce costs while providing patient-centered care for a growing number of elderly Americans with multiple chronic conditions. Click to learn how.
• Click here to learn why Managing Cancer at Work can make a difference in the lives of your employees who are facing a cancer diagnosis, or are caring for someone with cancer.

Baltimore, September 29 2016 – Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions, a part of Johns Hopkins Medicine, today announced the opening of its 55th onsite employee health and wellness center for The Coastal Companies. A leading processor […]

• Innovative platform facilitates remote patient monitoring & communication, personalized video coaching, and clinical decision support from any location, on any device.
• Felicia Hill-Briggs, Ph.D., an expert on behavior change, answers questions about the importance of diabetes self-management.
• As the cost of caring for our aging population is spiraling upwards, Johns Hopkins innovates to solve many health care problems for those 65 and older.

Baltimore, September 22 2016 – Lillie Shockney, University Distinguished Professor of Breast Cancer and administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Breast Cancer Center received a Healthcare Trailblazer Award at the annual Women in Business Awards […]

• Johns Hopkins developed early mobility program decreases length of stay and improves outcomes for young patients.
• A Johns Hopkins-based weight loss program helps employees reach a healthier weight through lifestyle changes that become lifelong habits.
• HR benefits helps employees and managers navigate the workplace challenges posed by a cancer diagnosis.

Baltimore, May 20 2016 – Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions today announced that it has signed an agreement with GE Aviation, a leading provider of commercial and military jet engines and components worldwide, to supply work-site employee […]

• In an effort to control rising health care costs, employers are increasingly turning to onsite and near-site clinics.
• In a historic moment, the Diabetes Prevention Program became the first preventive service model to be made eligible for expansion into a Medicare program.
• A new study finds that health plan members who accessed their health information online were more likely to utilize preventive care measure.

Baltimore, April 25 2016 – Discovery Limited of South Africa won the 2016 Starfield Award for their use of the Johns Hopkins ACG System to investigate the impact of care coordination on health care costs […]

• Learn how to put “Big Data” to work in health care at the 2016 Johns Hopkins ACG System International Conference. Meet and interact with ACG System users from across the globe and discover new features of Version 11.1 in person.
• A leading cause of death in the U.S., preventable medical errors claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Project Emerge, a joint effort between Johns Hopkins and Microsoft, is designed to save lives by creating a networked ICU.
• Managing Cancer at Work celebrates its one-year anniversary by helping cancer patients ask for, and find support, at work.

• A standardized, evidenced-based method to assess frailty across clinical and research settings.
• For over two decades, the Johns Hopkins ACG System® has set the standard for population health care analytics. In recognition of this achievement, AcademyHealth presented the HSR Impact Award to the ACG System®.
• Featuring rankings and information on 38 diets and eating plans for the estimated 45 million Americans who will diet this year, the U.S. News and World Report Best Diets of 2016 guide puts diets and eating plans to the test.

• The Osler Medicine Survival Guide, distills twenty years of Johns Hopkins’ vetted, best-practice care into a concise mobile app for point-of-care use.
• An instructional, parent-delivered therapy to help treat primary motor stereotypies in children.
• Follow Johns Hopkins Solutions on Twitter to receive health care updates and insights in real time. Go to our Twitter page then click the FOLLOW button.

• An innovative substitute for acute hospital care, Hospital at Home provides hospital-level care for patients in their own home…
• A self-paced learning tool, DECIDE (Decision-making Education for Choices In Diabetes Everyday), helps patients improve self-management by developing their problem-solving skills…
• Follow the Johns Hopkins Solutions LinkedIn page to receive timely health care information that helps you stay up-to-date with Solutions…

Hospital at Home® is a groundbreaking model for health care organizations that allows them to address challenge of caring for acutely ill elderly patients. Currently being implemented across the country at VA hospitals, health systems, and managed care programs, patients receiving care through HaH® experience better clinical outcomes with a lower average length of stay than similarly hospitalized patients.

In 2012, a study by the American Diabetes Association estimated that the total cost of diabetes diagnoses to be $245 billion, of that $179 was in direct medical costs. DECIDE is the only self-paced, literacy adapted diabetes self-management program for adults that aims to improve both the patient experience and quality of care while reducing costs.

• Managing Cancer at Work provides information and support sourced from the renowned cancer center at Johns Hopkins specifically tailored to the needs of the modern workplace…
• Effective interactions with those of different backgrounds is critical to delivering high-quality care. COA360’s online platform helps hospitals measure their cultural competency…
• Connecting medical experts to their patients, emocha provides web-based solutions for access to care, adherence, data management and more…

• According to the CDC, falls are the leading cause of injury death for Americans 65 and older. A checklist that assess fall risk in the health care setting helped reduce fall injuries to half…
• Effective training program teaches hospital care providers how to support their peers traumatized by stressful events at work…
• Version 11 of the Johns Hopkins ACG System improves upon award-winning health care analytics tools to identify high-risk patients, assess and stratify populations, and more…

Version 11 of the Johns Hopkins ACG System improves upon award-winning healthcare analytics tool to identify high-risk members, assess and stratify populations, and more.

Training program teaches hospital care providers how to set up and sustain a program to support their peers traumatized by stressful events at work.

According to the CDC, falls are the leading cause of injury death for Americans 65 years and older. A Johns Hopkins-developed checklist used to assess fall risk in the health care setting has been successful in helping reduce falls during hospitalization, cutting fall injury rates in half.

Innergy, an employee benefit based upon Johns Hopkins research and developed by Healthways, provides a personalized, coach-based program that people can use to lose weight and keep it off.  Whether starting with a symptom or a […]

Innergy ®, an employee benefit developed by Healthways based upon Johns Hopkins research, provides a personalized, coach-based program for losing weight and keeping it off.

Whether starting with a symptom or a diagnosis, the Phipps Guide brings a needed cohesiveness to doctors seeking evidence-based guidance for diagnosing and treating individuals with mental illness.

Keeping experienced hospitalists can lower case costs by $800, and decrease length of stay by a half day.

The standard for risk adjustment, the Johns Hopkins ACG® System boasts a customizable suite of tools that supports basic and complex applications in finance, administration, care delivery, and evaluative research.

Premier, Inc., and Johns Hopkins to develop models to improve health care and foster wellness.

  Johns Hopkins HealthCare President Patricia M.C. Brown guides you to the ways Johns Hopkins experts & programs can help improve the health of your organizations’ population. Healthcare at the workplace adds value to employers and […]

Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, notes that quick fixes won’t improve the quality of patient care. We need long-term solutions that are rooted in the science of patient safety.

A health care clinic available right within the workplace adds value to employers and reduces the amount of time employees are away from work with injury-and illness-related absences.

Johns Hopkins HealthCare president Patricia M.C. Brown guides you to the ways Johns Hopkins experts and programs are helping improve population health.

Program designed to replicate success of a recent clinical trial showing telephone counseling helps patients lose significant weight and keep it off for two years – Building on the success of recent Hopkins research showing obese participants were able to lose significant weight and keep it off for two years using telephone coaching and a specially designed website, Johns Hopkins Medicine is collaborating with Healthways to help bring the innovative weight-loss program to many more who could benefit from it.