Study Focuses on Understanding Total Impact of Health on Company Bottom Line.CHICAGO -- The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM ACOEM American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ) and the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI See Information Builders. ) have initiated a research study to assess the full costs of absenteeism and presenteeism Presenteeism is the opposite of absenteeism. In contrast to absenteeism, when employees are absent from work illegitimately, presenteeism discusses the problems faced when employees come to work in spite of illness, which can have similar negative repercussions on business on a company's productivity. ACOEM and IBI, working in strategic collaboration with CorSolutions, Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. , and the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH MBGH Midwest Business Group on Health (Chicago, Illinois) MBGH Michigan Big Game Hunters ), will focus their "Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy" (HPS See Seer*HPS. ) study on identifying leading chronic conditions that drive employer health care costs. The goal of the research is to develop a greater understanding of the total impact of health on the financial bottom line for employers and contribute to industry advancement and the betterment of human health. The HPS is designed to survey more than 100,000 employees utilizing the Health & Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) to confidentially gather data. The HPQ is an on-line validated productivity measurement survey tool developed by Ron Kessler, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO). Additionally, data analysis on health and pharmacy claims will be provided by CorSolutions and evaluated in conjunction with the HPQ to enable calculation of health care expenditures and provide additional financial factors for calculating operations expenses. ACOEM and IBI will work jointly on this study and production of a final publication. The study will target for participation strategic partners in both the benefits and occupational health functions of 5 to 10 major corporations. The study will collect aggregate benefit program information from each corporation and will bring presenteeism into the "full-cost" framework so that the impact of absence and ill-health at work on productivity loss are understood compared to employer out-of-pocket expense. As strategic partners in the study, the participating organizations will leverage their expertise in group health, workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. , short-term disability, long-term disability, incidental absence, and family medical leave to help determine targeted cost/benefit analysis and plan modeling that may include disease management, EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) A protocol that acts as a framework and transport for other authentication protocols. EAP uses its own start and end messages, but then carries any number of third-party messages between the client (supplicant) and access control or wellness programs. The Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy study is scheduled for completion by June 2006. Study outcomes featuring a validated third-party health and productivity snapshot report will be shared with participating employers to help quantify the effects of health problems on lost company productivity. In addition, ACOEM and IBI plan to publish final results as well as share findings as part of public presentations. The study is funded by the National Pharmaceutical Council, a research and education organization supported by more than 20 of the nation's leading research-based pharmaceutical companies. About the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) ACOEM represents more than 5,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in the field of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ). Founded in 1916, ACOEM is the nation's largest medical society dedicated to promoting the health of workers through preventive medicine preventive medicine, branch of medicine dealing with the prevention of disease and the maintenance of good health practices. Until recently preventive medicine was largely the domain of the U.S. , clinical care, research, and education. A dynamic group of physicians encompassing specialists in a variety of medical practices is united via the College to develop positions and policies on vital issues relevant to the practice of preventive medicine both within and outside of the workplace. For more information, visit www.acoem.org. About the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) IBI is a national, nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. sponsored by more than 400 American corporations including employers, consultants, insurers, health care providers, disease management firms, third-party administrators, pharmaceutical companies and behavioral health providers. IBI provides research, an integrated health and productivity educational forum and benefits measurement and benchmarking tools to monitor benefits down and across programs and up to business impacts. For more information, visit www.ibiweb.org. About CorSolutions CorSolutions is the nation's first customer centric health intelligence and solutions company that measurably improves lives. An industry pioneer with the longest tenure of delivering proven health care outcomes, CorSolutions addresses the demands of business today with the innovative, comprehensive approach to health and productivity. The company offers a completely integrated suite of clinical, administrative and provider services that span the entire health continuum from wellness and prevention to acute, chronic and specialty/complex care to deliver the industry's broadest and most flexible health and productivity management solutions. For more information, visit www.corsolutions.com. About Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School is one of the world's preeminent institutions in medical education and research. The breadth and depth of its scientific and clinical disciplines are unsurpassed. The School has nearly 8,000 faculty and 17 affiliated facilities. At the core of the Medical School are its educational and research programs. The student body is composed of 650 men and women in the MD program; 477 students in the PhD program; and 132 in the joint MD-PhD programs, part of which is sponsored in collaboration with MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . The Medical School has nine departments in basic and social science disciplines: Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics molecular genetics n. The branch of genetics that deals with hereditary transmission and variation on the molecular level. , Neurobiology Neurobiology Study of the development and function of the nervous system, with emphasis on how nerve cells generate and control behavior. The major goal of neurobiology is to explain at the molecular level how nerve cells differentiate and develop their , Pathology, Ambulatory Care ambulatory care n. Medical care provided to outpatients. ambulatory care, n the health services provided on an outpatient basis to those who can visit a health care facility and return home the same day. and Prevention, Health Care Policy, and Social Medicine. The Medical School is the largest of Harvard's graduate faculties and has traditionally been a trend-setter for many University-wide initiatives. About Midwest Business Group on Health The Chicago based Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) was founded in January 1980 by a small group of large Midwest employers to help all types of purchasers - employers' and their employees - obtain more value from their health care benefit dollars. Today, MBGH is one of the nation's leading coalitions of private and public employers. MBGH's 75+ members employ over 2 million workers, spending greater than $2.3 billion on health care benefits. Organized as a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, MBGH offers employers a variety of health benefit education seminars, networking opportunities, demonstration projects and group purchasing programs. In the Chicago metropolitan area “Chicagoland” redirects here. For for the racing venue, see Chicagoland Speedway. The Chicago metropolitan area is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago in the United States. , MBGH works with all segments of the local health care industry to improve the quality and safety of health care services and to find workable solutions to common problems of the community. About the National Pharmaceutical Council NPC 1. (complexity) NPC - NP-complete. 2. (architecture) NPC - Next Program Counter. advances the appropriate use of pharmaceuticals for the betterment of human health. Since 1953, NPC has sponsored and conducted scientific, evidence-based analyses of the appropriate use of pharmaceuticals and the clinical and economic value of pharmaceutical innovation. NPC provides educational resources to a variety of health care stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, payers and policy makers. More than 20 research-based pharmaceutical companies are members of the NPC. The NPC staff brings to their work a variety of experiences from within the pharmaceutical industry, government health and regulatory agencies, academia, advocacy groups and private health plans and providers. |
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