Resources

Here you'll find new evidence and guidance from various sources across a variety of conditions of relevance to different audiences.

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VR In The Workplace
Employees & Patients
Employers
Solutions Partners

This is Episode 1 of our podcast series on technology that is radically changing our idea of worker health solutions. Here, we focus on Virtual Reality. Pretty neat, huh?

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Creative

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Healthy Work Agenda - Healthy Work Campaign
Employees & Patients
Employers

The Healthy Work Agenda is designed to promote understanding, discussions, and actions that advance “healthy work.” (See Principles of Healthy Work.) Created to support the Healthy Work Campaign, the Agenda is a set of actions to improve the quality of jobs and promote “healthy work.” Those actions are part of an effort to encourage “thinking …

Read more at HEALTHYWORK.ORG
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Study Summary: Complex Case Management and New Technology
doctor connecting data
Employees & Patients
Employers
Solutions Partners
Multimorbidity

The Center for Workforce Health and Performance (CWHP) will study the outcomes of employee populations after pharmacogenomics are facilitated, case managed, and applied in high-risk, highly complex plan members.

Read more at TCWHP.ORG
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RX-Precision — Genomic Study | RX-Precision
diagram of medical complexity
Employers
Multimorbidity

Find information on study enrollment and the care and testing process

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Thursday, October 4th, 2018: V-BID in Diabetes Webinar
Diabetes

Webinar: V-BID in Diabetes At noon on Thursday, October 4th, 2018, the V-BID Center is hosting a webinar in cooperation with the Center for Workforce Health and

Read more at VBIDCENTER.ORG
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Population Health to Personalized Medicine: Connecting Disease Indicators to Work Outcomes - Diabetes
Employers
Solutions Partners
Diabetes

The CWHP report "Population Health to Personlized Medicine: Connecting Disease Indicators to Work Outcomes - Type 2 Diabetes" presents a framework for connecting disease indicators of diabetes to a variety of work outcomes including absence, job performance, work disability and permanent departure from the workforce. The framework outlines connections between clinical and employer perspectives around worker health and suggests a variety of ways to improve diagnosis and treatment for better health and work-related outcomes.

Read more at TCWHP.ORG
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How Employers Use Evidence to Make Employee Health Investment Decisions
Employers
Solutions Partners
Multimorbidity

The CWHP report "The Employer's Role in Using Research-Based Healthcare Evidence" presents findings and recommendations from a series of interviews with employers and their programmatic solutions partners.  

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Tackling Chronic Pain While Reducing Opioid Use
Solutions Partners
Pain

A health system in Washington instituted a clinical plan that has succeeded in lowering patients’ opioid doses, according to a PCORI-funded study.

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Helping Men Decide on Prostate Cancer Treatment
Employees & Patients
Cancer

Problems are more likely three years after surgery than after radiation or surveillance, a study finds.

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A Patient Decision Aid to Help Heavy Smokers Make Decisions about Lung Cancer Screening
Employees & Patients
Cancer

For smokers, lung cancer is an ever-present fear. In 2013, about 160,000 people in the United States will die from lung cancer. Smoking is the #1 risk factor for lung cancer, and quitting smoking is the best way to lower the risk. Smoking is also a risk factor for other cancers and health problems, including heart and lung disease. We now have a secondary prevention strategy, annual screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT scans) that has the potential to greatly reduce lung cancer deaths.

Read more at PCORI.ORG