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ATLANTA, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Health, LLC, the health management services business of Alere Inc., announced today that it has achieved the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient and Practitioner Oriented Full Accreditation for its Disease Management program, encompassing services for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal pain, coronary artery disease, heart failure, depression and high-risk pregnancies.

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Program management capabilities prepare employers and PBMs to leverage new provisions in Healthcare Reform and enable retailers to integrate with their existing loyalty programs

August 27, 2010 — San Francisco, CA — WiredBenefits, a leading provider of prepaid healthcare solutions, has launched the Wellness Rewards Program, a simple, cost-effective and web-administered platform for employers to dispense wellness incentives program rewards. The WiredBenefits Wellness Rewards Platform allows employers to load tax advantaged incentive reward dollars onto a Wellness Reward Card – a debit card to be used strictly for healthcare services, products and activities – further encouraging healthy behaviors and extending the reach of a company's incentive dollars.

08/31/2010

Public Input Sought at http://www.urac.org/publiccomment/

Washington, D.C. – August 31, 2010 – URAC today announced a call for public comment on the second set of toolkits for its new Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH) Program.  The program, comprised of an integrated series of three educational toolkits, will help health care practices follow a step-wise process in their journey to becoming a PCHCH.  Comment on the first toolkit, the Health Care Practice Assessment Toolkit, closed on August 12, 2010.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Innovative federal partnership should yield important findings about returning military personnel

Eleven research institutions in 11 states will receive more than $6 million in federal funding from fiscal year 2010 to support research on substance abuse and associated problems among U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, is collaborating with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to award grants that will examine substance abuse related to deployment and combat related trauma. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are also NIH partners in this endeavor. NIH is awarding more than $4 million in grant funding; the VA, around $2 million.

8/30/2010

New two-way communication interface with ECRI Institute improves patient safety, recall tracking, and healthcare asset management

August 19, 2010

NHPCO Reminds People They Can Ask Physicians for Palliative Care

(Alexandria, Va) – A new study released by the New England Journal of Medicine found that among patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, those who received palliative care lived, on average, almost two months longer than those who received standard care.  Researchers also found that the patients receiving palliative care reported a higher quality of life through the final course of their illness.

WASHINGTON—DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance today praised recommendations from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that wellness, prevention and chronic disease management should be counted as quality improvement activities in the medical loss ratio (MLR) formula.