For employers, quality healthcare means having a healthy workforce, benefiting from increased productivity, and getting better value for each healthcare dollar.

A Harvard Medical School study finds out what patients really think about generic medications.

One important change that would truly reform healthcare would be to make healthcare performance more transparent, that is, to start reporting on doctor and hospital outcomes: do they make patients better?; how often do patients receive the proper medical care?; what are the re-admittance rates?; etc. Reporting results such as these gives power to healthcare consumers to choose providers who will give them the best care.

The individual healthcare experience is comprised of a series of procedures.  Each procedure begins with the first visit to a healthcare provider for a given condition, and ends with fulfillment of the condition's treatment.  An annual physical is relatively simple, and typically involves only one step.  More complicated conditions requiring surgery or other intensive treatments consist of multiple steps from beginning to end.  Whether the treatment requires just one step, or many, the entire process is considered one procedure.

Whether it’s for better health, control of cholesterol, diabetes or weight loss people commonly ask –What diet should I be on???  One only needs to browse the diet book aisles of their favorite book store or search this topic online to be inundated with thousands of books and articles touting the newest and BEST diet.  If you pause to think about it, if there really WAS a BEST diet, wouldn’t there be only ONE book that we all would follow? Unfortunately the latest fads tend to catch on because they promise fast results with little sacrifice.  As anyone who has tried these diets can tell you, the promise usually goes unfulfilled and the results are typically disappointing and short lived.