Significant additional outreach and engagement strategies and incentives are likely required to increase adoption and ongoing use of health risk assessment tools among target populations. We designed ...

Tailoring breast cancer screening to a woman's individual cancer risk might work better than annual mammograms, researchers ...

Medicare Advantage plans have come under fire for upcoding that can increase the payouts they receive, and regulators point to health risk assessments as a likely culprit in this increase in coding ...

The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) is a free, confidential questionnaire about your diet, exercise, smoking, drinking and other lifestyle behaviors. Everyone who completes the HRA will be able to obtain ...

A digital toolkit with patient scripts, risk calculator comparisons and more could help primary care and OB/GYN providers ...

The Department of Health and Human Services made headlines in October with a report detailing problems with health risk assessments used by Medicare Advantage insurers. The Office of Inspector General ...

One the most challenging areas facing healthcare organizations today is the decision to adopt an electronic health records system. This decision involves significant financial resources and time ...

In March, 2008, the Associated Press published a three-part series reporting pharmaceuticals detected in the drinking water of 24 U.S. metropolitan areas serving approximately 41 million people. This ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require scientific ...

A National Research Council committee will evaluate human health risks and the potential for conducting a cumulative risk assessment for phthalate esters. The committee will review critical scientific ...