Cutting Healthcare Costs "The Missing Piece"
Do 10 - 20% of the people covered by your healthcare plan consume 80-90% of your plan's resource dollars?
Conquer this costly problem by using The Savvy Patient Health Record System in The Savvy Patient's Toolkit—the comprehensive guide to better health care through the Right Information, in the Right Way, at the Right Time. The The Savvy Patient Health Record System is said to be the solution to "the missing piece" of the puzzle when it comes to reducing healthcare costs.
Do you know your employees can many things to improve their healthcare and prevent medical errors?
- Studies show that patients who take an active role in their healthcare have better outcomes.
- Patients have the power to be part of the solution.
- Patients can be much better stewards of their healthcare resources.
The Savvy Patient Health Record System provides the management system, education & tools that Empower patients to take control of their healthcare. It shows how to:
- Take control and attain better healthcare
- Prevent duplicate tests
- Decrease hospital bills
- Decrease chances for and prevent errors
- And much more...
These actions in turn decrease medical costs and eventually insurance costs. Everyone wins!
- Medical costs build one patient, one test, one treatment and one error at a time - They can decrease one patient, one test, one treatment and one error at a time. With everyone empowered and engaged in their care, overall costs will go down.
- Until employees take charge of their care, companies will continue to pay for stopgap measures & services to compensate for things employees should be responsible for and doing for themselves.
If you already have case or disease management programs in place, take the next step. The Savvy Patient Health Record System is a health care management system that empowers your employees to take even more control of their health regardless of their condition(s) or situation.
If you do not have case / disease management programs, the Savvy Patient Health Record System can be the foundation for empowering your employees to be their own healthcare managers.
Save Money & Cut Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs for Your Business
- If 1,000 people saved just $100 per year by having one less test and / or one less doctor visit, $100, 000 would be cut from medical costs. Millions of dollars can be saved when more people become actively involved in their healthcare.
Don't wait call today to discuss:
* Bulk book discounts
* Customized books & notebooks
* Employee education
In either case contact me at mcorbett@triad.rr.com or by calling 336-529-0441 to learn more about how this system can work for you.
Are you aware of these Medical Error Statistics?
- A 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates up to 100,000 people die and roughly another half million are seriously injured each year due to hospital errors. Costs to the nation are approximately $37.6 million, with $17 million associated with preventable errors.
- One study revealed 13.6 percent of doctor visits were missing test results and other documents; 44 percent of patients were adversely affected; and 59.5 percent received delayed care or duplicate services, adding cost to the system (Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], February 2005).
- A National Patient Safety Foundation national poll revealed 42 percent of respondents had been affected by a medical error either personally or through a friend or relative. Of that 32 percent reported permanent negative effects on their health.
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHQR) cites research that shows the majority of medical errors are preventable; 70 percent of adverse events found in 1,133 medical records were preventable, 6 percent potentially preventable, and 24 percent not preventable.
- A study of adverse drug events among ambulatory older people reported 27.6 percent were preventable; 58.4 percent of the 27.6 percent occurred at the prescribing stages (JAMA, March 2003).
Phone: 336-529-0441
Last Updated March 25, 2009