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OCHCP Resource Guide
There is so much information on health and health care, it is hard to know what can be relied on for accurate and safe information.
To help patients and their families make more informed choices about the quality, risks, and cost-effectiveness of health care OCHCP recommends these sites to obtain information about the following topics:
Now Hear This! -- A Pediatric Poster about Ear Infections Part 2
All About Viruses -- A pediatrics guide to the cold and the flu
All About Viruses -- A guide for colds and the flu patients
About that bug! -- Virus vs. bacteria infections, a guide to antibiotic use.
The National Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) --Each year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) declares May to be "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month." It's a peak season for asthma and allergy sufferers, and a perfect time to educate your patients, family, friends, co-workers and others about these diseases:
Healthy Seasons - What can you do to minimize productivity losses due to allergies? First, make sure that you and/or your employees are well educated about allergies.Allergies are a chronic and highly prevalent condition in the population and the workplace. Their impact goes well beyond direct treatment costs, as allergies have a significant impact on Worker productivity. This website has information to education your workplace.
Healthy Seasons Offers -- Johnson & Johnson, one of our partners and makers of a leading NSA ( Zyrtec) is currently offering money-saving coupons to help you treat allergies in an economical manner, as well as many other offers.
Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care -- National Business Group on Health The Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care was developed to help employers, labor unions and others frame and deliver messages to employees about the meaning and importance of getting evidence-based health care.
HealthSmart - - HealthSmart is a service of the National Business Coalition on Health. This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
Cost TransparencyCompare Hospital Costs, Oregon Health Policy and Research -- This website contains data gathered by The Department of Consumer and Business Services from insurers in Oregon on the payments made to Oregon hospitals. The Web site contains data on the average payments for common conditions or procedures.
Oregon Price Point System -- This Web site provided by the Oregon Association of Hospitals & Health Systems allows health care consumers to receive basic, facility-specific information about services and charges. The information being displayed is based on charges only, individuals need to contact their insurer to determine the specific amount that will be paid under their policy for the selected service.
National Institutes of Health--The NIH mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
IntelliHealth--Harvard Medical School's consumer health information
Net Wellness-- Net Wellness is a non-profit consumer health web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the University, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati.
HealthSmart - - HealthSmart is a service of the National Business Coalition on Health. This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
Mayo Clinic.com's Tools for Healthier Lives -- This is a user-friendly, general consumer website with disease & condition information, healthy living tips, and treatment decision tools among other resources.
WebMD -- This is a consumer website with disease & condition information, healthy living tips, and medication information among other resources.
The Centers for Disease Control -- Health and safety information, data and statistics, tools and many resources, publications, lifestyle information and an array of resources of disabilities, minority health, etc. This is a huge site packed with information. http://www.cdc.gov/
Health Care ReformOregon Health Fund Board -- the Oregon Health Fund Board is a 7 member board appointed by the Governor chartered with developing a comprehensive plan to ensure access to health care for Oregonians, contain health care costs, and address issues of quality in health care.
Center for Studying Health System Change -- The HSC strives to provide high-quality, timely and objective research and analysis that leads to sound policy decisions, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the American public.
The Healthy Americans Act: Senator Ron Wyden -- Senator Ron Wyden has unveiled a groundbreaking, bipartisan proposal to provide affordable, high quality, private health coverage for every American, regardless of where they work or live. It is the first bipartisan proposal to reform health care in over a dozen years.
The Archimedes Movement -- The mission of the Archimedes Movement is to create a new space for civic engagement outside of our traditional legislative and governance structures so that we can work on solutions to the common problems we face.
Health Leadership Task Force -- The Health Leadership Task Force was formed to respond to the business community’s challenge to health care industry executives. Sponsors of the task force are Providence Health & Services, Legacy Health System, Oregon Health & Science University, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, ODS Companies, PacificSource and Kaiser Permanente Northwest.
Medical Conditions
- AsthmaDisease Benchmarks® for Asthma - - features disease-specific national and regional metrics of costs, units of use, and services utilized.
HealthSmart - - HealthSmart is a service of the National Business Coalition on Health. This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
- Back PainHealthSmart Back Pain - - HealthSmart is a service of the National Business Coalition on Health. This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
- Cancer
National Cancer Institute -- Cancer topics offers information types of cancer, treatments, alternative therapies, trials and prevention among other consumer-friendly topics.
HealthSmart Breast Cancer - - This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
- Cardiovascular DiseaseCDC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Toolkit Guide - Successful Business Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
HealthSmart Cronic Heart Disease - - This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
HealthSmart Hypertension - - This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
HealthSmart COPD - - HealthSmart is a service of the National Business Coalition on Health. This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
Time To Engage - - This website offers a variety of resources to help you better understand depression.
The Productivity Impact Model - - The Productivity Impact Model (PI Model) can help estimate the
cost of depression to your company, and can also project the benefits when depressed employees receive treatment.
Focus On Depression - - The Quality Profiles provides organizations with proven road maps to success, and at the same time recognizes some of the plans that have done a noteworthy job of improving job of improving the health status of their members.
-Diabetes
HealthSmart Diabetes - - HealthSmart is a service of the National Business Coalition on Health. This site is designed to help consumers of health care learn more about how to manage their own chronic disease, and to educate consumers on disease prevalence. To do so, the site contains disease-specific information, resources, and other helpful links.
Bridges to Excellence –- The Bridges To Excellence organization designs and creates programs that encourage physicians and physician practices to deliver safer, more effective and efficient care by giving them financial and other incentives to do so.
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement-- The NRHI is a national coalition of Regional Healthcare Collaboratives -- regionally-based, multi-stakeholder organizations that are working to improve the quality and value of health care delivery. NRHI provides technical assistance to Regional Healthcare Collaboratives, facilitates information sharing among them, and encourages national policies that support efforts by Regional Healthcare Collaboratives to improve healthcare quality and value. The Oregon Quality Corporation is a NRHI Member.
Prescription Drug Program -- Oregon Legislature authorized the formation of the OPDP, a prescription drug purchasing pool, to help increase access to prescription drugs by the uninsured and lower costs for state and city governments.
Prevention and WellnessA Purchaser’s Guide to Clinical Prevention Services -- Moving Science into Coverage -- An Employer’s Toolkit – a comprehensive reference for employers on clinical preventive service benefit design. Developed in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Purchaser's Guide translates clinical guidelines and medical evidence, providing employers with the information they need to select, define, and implement preventive medical benefits such as colorectal cancer screening and tobacco use treatment.
Flu Vaccinations -- The numbers on influenza are staggering. For instance, 66% of health care workers didn’t get an annual flu shot in 2005. Likewise, 58% of employees in a recent survey know a coworker who came to work sick or with the flu, thus possibly infecting others and reducing employee effectiveness. And since influenza can be fatal among many high-risk groups, it’s just as important for you to get an annual flu vaccine as it is for the people you come in contact with—so you don’t spread the flu to others. Explore this site and learn why efforts to protect against the flu should last all year. See why heart patients and asthma sufferers are at greater risk for complications. Understand how the flu virus spreads and mutates...and much more.
Flu Pandemic -- Pandemic flu planning by organizations and businesses is a self service and a public service: plans put into place now will play a key role in protecting employees' health and safety as well as limiting the negative impact to organizations, the economy and society.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute -- This site contains a Body Mass Index Calculator along with other weight management tools.
Oregon Healthy Worksites -- The Healthy Worksites Initiative supports the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention (HPCDP) framework through a strategic focus on the worksite setting.
Quality MeasuresConsumer Purchaser Disclosure Project -- The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project is a group of leading employer, consumer, and labor organizations working toward a common goal to ensure that all Americans have access to publicly reported health care performance information.
Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation -- The Quality Corporation coordinates projects that lead to real solutions for improving health care quality through better information and increased community-wide collaboration.
Oregon Hospital Quality Indicators -- This report compares data gathered on 14 procedures and conditions. The comparisons focus on in-hospital volumes and death rates for certain conditions and inpatient procedures.
Health Care Acquired Infections Advisory Committee -- The HCAIAC is a statutorily mandated committee to advise Oregon Health Policy and Research on the development of a health care acquired infections reporting program in Oregon.
Hospital Compare – US Department of Health & Human Services -- This tool provides information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures and gives results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance -- NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda.
URAC -- URAC promotes continuous improvement in the quality and efficiency of health care delivery by achieving a common understanding of excellence among purchasers, providers, and patients.
URAC Purchasers Guide -- URAC has partnered with the NBCH to offer this guide to purchasing and managing PBM services. URAC has utilized its experience in bringing industry experts and stakeholders together to form the editorial advisory committee for this guide. The committee has worked together to define the basic information that is essential for today’s purchaser of PBM services.
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement-- The NRHI is a national coalition of Regional Healthcare Collaboratives -- regionally-based, multi-stakeholder organizations that are working to improve the quality and value of health care delivery. NRHI provides technical assistance to Regional Healthcare Collaboratives, facilitates information sharing among them, and encourages national policies that support efforts by Regional Healthcare Collaboratives to improve healthcare quality and value. The Oregon Quality Corporation is a NRHI Member.
U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services – Hospital Compare -- In this tool you will find information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, and results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services, and other members of the Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information (HQA).
Smoking CessationTobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon -- TOFCO is a not for profit organization that advocates for programs and policies that will decrease the toll of tobacco-use in Oregon. TOFCO is working to achieve three goals; helping people quit tobacco, stopping young people before they start and protecting our clean air from smoke.
Know your health -- Information and surveys to find out your health risks and in
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