Research is a powerful tool that helps our clients improve and customize their healthcare delivery. By collaborating together, we can evaluate various program designs and measure the clinical and economic effectiveness of your workplace health model. This is a critical step as data gathering and analysis aids in making better healthcare decisions, building more efficient systems, increasing patient satisfaction and maximizing return on investment. Our research initiatives include:
- Analyzing the positive results from the integration of primary care and pharmacy services, and the impact on prescribing patterns and cost savings
- Defining the economics of workplace health and return on investment
- Measuring and explaining increased engagement in employee health management programs that are offered through a trusted clinician at the workplace
Below are some recent research studies that you may find useful in evaluating workplace healthcare. If you would like access to other research studies, contact us or call 1-800-572-6650.
“Leveraging the Trusted Clinician: Increasing Retention in Disease Management Through Integrated Program Delivery”
Lasting retention of patients in disease-management (DM) programs is essential to achieve the medical management and behavioral changes necessary to improve health outcomes. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that an integrated disease management (IDM) protocol, which combines telephonic-delivered disease management (TDM) with a worksite-based primary-care center and pharmacy delivery, yields higher patient retention rates than traditional remote DM alone. (Originally published in Population Health Management, Vol. 11, No. 5, 2008)
“A Prescription for Appropriate Antibiotics Usage: Physicians and Pharmacists Collaborate Within a Workplace Health Center”
The rising costs of healthcare, particularly drug spending, is a worrisome trend for self-insured employers, especially considering their concern that this increased spending is not associated with healthcare improvement yielding greater value. While there are cases where newer drugs are more effective than older drugs and are, therefore, clinically superior, multiple studies have shown that older, less expensive drugs are often as or more effective than newer drugs. This study shows that patients who have their prescriptions written by workplace-based physicians and filled at collaborating workplace pharmacies have higher rates of first-line antibiotic (less expensive generic drugs) utilization than patients who receive primary medical care from community physicians. (Originally published in Journal of Health and Productivity Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2007)
“Leveraging the Trusted Clinician: Documenting Disease Management Program Enrollment”
Leading industry estimates on telephonic-delivered disease management (TDM) engagement rates are 25%. This study examines the higher engagement rate that integrated disease management (IDM), which combines TDM with a worksite-based primary-care center and pharmacy delivery, yields over traditional TDM. (Originally published in Disease Management, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2007)
