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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Retaining your hospitalists can reduce health care costs by $800 per case and decrease length of stay by a half-a-day. 

• 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.

• “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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…