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Unnecessary Health Care Expenditures
September 11, 2012As reported in various sources last week including the Washington Post, the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) recently convened a Committee to explore how health care practitioners and providers can learn from the central challenges facing health care today as a collaborative effort...
Sep 12, 2012
Controlling High Blood Pressure to Curb a Public Health Crisis
September 5, 2012USA Today reports on a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control, “Getting Blood Pressure Under Control.” Efforts have been successful at educating the public about the risks of high blood pressure; however, people’s ability to successfully manage the...
Sep 05, 2012
Mayo Clinic Driving Innovation to Improve Quality
August 28, 2012Kaiser Health News reports that improving quality and lowering costs are driving a new Mayo Clinic strategy aimed at helping hospitals and physician groups work together more effectively. In the past year, the Mayo Clinic introduced the Mayo Clinic Care Network, which...
Aug 28, 2012
Preventive Medicine and Public Health
August 22, 2012One of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease’s main tenants is to promote a collective focus on investing in and promoting ways to both better tackle the incidence of chronic disease and reduce health care spending.  We’ve recently seen that collective focus generate some...
Aug 22, 2012
Pre-Diabetes Interventions at All Levels
August 14, 2012The Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog reports that many health care providers are stepping up their efforts to assist patients in making the lifestyle changes necessary to ward off Type 2 diabetes. Leading the charge, at least in terms of sheer numbers, is the Centers for...
Aug 15, 2012
The Impact of Chronic Conditions on Spending Disparities
August 3, 2012In a recent article from The Fiscal Times, Merrill Goozner reminded us again of the importance of wellness and prevention and the long-term impact a focus on these areas can have in cutting overall healthcare costs.  Citing a recent study on healthcare spending released by the...
Aug 06, 2012
New Study Details Decreased Medication Adherence in Medicaid Populations
July 25, 2012Medicaid is missing out on a significant opportunity to improve health and lower costs, according to a new study.  Looking at Medicaid enrollees with conditions that can lead to heart disease, researchers found the number who failed to take their medicines is on the rise,...
Jul 25, 2012
Integrating chronic disease management with new health delivery mechanisms
July 19, 2012We’ve long known that the key to addressing our greatest 21st century health care challenges – controlling costs while achieving improved health outcomes – lies in attacking chronic disease. With the implementation of health reform, the question we’re facing is how to mesh this goal...
Jul 19, 2012
New Strides in Alzheimer’s Research
July 18, 2012As PFCD partner the Alzheimer’s Association is currently in the midst of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, USA Today reports exciting news about the possibilities that early detection of Alzheimer’s offers. At the conference, 5000 researchers have gathered...
Jul 18, 2012
Study seeks to understand relationship between Chronic Stress and Alzheimer’s disease
July 12, 2012Currently 5.4 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease – the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. – and more than 800,000 people in the U.K. battle some form of dementia. Researchers globally are working tirelessly to find an effective way to prevent and treat the disease...
Jul 12, 2012

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