{"title":"Electronic formulary control.","authors":"R P Navarro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although pharmacy program managers have used numerous strategies to ensure conformance with the drug formulary, most are activated after the prescription of a nonformulary drug has been written. The ultimate goal being pursued by a variety of MCOs is to educate the physician at the point of care and present formulary alternatives at the time the prescription pad is out and the pen is in hand.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 8","pages":"74-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21042632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low back pain.","authors":"K E Arrandale, P R Wilson, D G Cave","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 8","pages":"60-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21042630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing member retention, satisfaction, and compliance.","authors":"M Kessler, E Garcia","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors discuss a health care communications skills training workshop to teach providers how to enhance patient satisfaction, compliance, and loyalty. Participants are taught the characteristics and communication needs of the four basic behavioral styles. This knowledge can make for more beneficial provider-patient encounter and better outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 7","pages":"75-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving asthma care in the outpatient setting.","authors":"C E Kowal","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Asthma is a chronic and costly disease that affects 5% of the U.S. population and accounts for more than 450,000 primary admissions each year. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts attempted to identify patients with asthma and develop a comprehensive asthma management program in the outpatient setting. The program has focused on one-to-one nursing education, increased utilization of anti-inflammatory inhalers, and actively engaging patients in a customized asthma care program.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 7","pages":"87-9, 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dew of Jerusalem: the Israeli health care system.","authors":"J D Emerson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Israeli health care system is more advanced than the American system in its universal coverage, its financing mechanism, and in its implementation of a managed competition process. Yet, it trails American developments in management of inpatient and outpatient services and in the creative design of provider reimbursements. An MCO executive provides his observations from a trade/study mission to this Middle Eastern country.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 7","pages":"68-72, 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring the success of disease management programs: research design and selection of comparison groups.","authors":"C M Kozma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 7","pages":"85-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care systems reach out over the Internet: Part II.","authors":"D Goldstein, J Flory","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 7","pages":"62-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managed care stock index. West Coast story.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 7","pages":"60-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}