HealthLink Wellness

HealthLink Wellness is committed to reduce health risks through regular health monitoring and feedback and to develop partnerships that engage the retiree within the fabric of the community. The ultimate goal is to build a culture of prevention where home, community and medical office work together as a team

Healthlink Measures

Integral to the HealthLink approach is regular medical screening and feedback. The specific measures screened are: fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, high-density lipoproteins (HDL), total cholesterol (TC), smoking habits and body mass index (BMI). At each screening feedback is provided to retirees about their results and the recommended screening values they should try to achieve.

Patient Centered

HealthLink is curently enrolling primary physicians to participate in our wellness approach in what is called the "Patient Centered Medical Home" as endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians.The HealthLink team and the Doctor's office work together as a team in helping our members acheive their wellness goals

The Statistical Audit

Auditmetrics has been a longtime proponent of the statistical financial audit. It is the uniting of the field of Statistics and Accounting. We analyze both healthcare and other public and private entities in terms of auditing economic performance. For Healthcare it also includes health outcome performance along with financial performance. Statistical audit methodology conforms to accepted accounting recommendations as published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). According to its Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 39, the essential features of statistical sampling are:

Sampled items should have a known probability of selection- i.e. random selection.
Results should be evaluated mathematically- in accordance with probability theory.

Just because one of these requirements is met does not mean that the application is statistical. Auditmetrics has established the statistical audit procedures for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s Audit Bureau to specifically conform to SAS No. 39. Certain specifics can be reviewed by Clicking “Financial Audit” on the menu bar.

Email: JBoffa@MSN.com

Read the CDC Healthy Aging Report

HealthLink Wellness has completed a pilot test of the Patient Centered Medical Home

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CDC report: High blood pressure and cholesterol out of control in the US

These are preventable conditions

According to a recent report from the CDC, an adult dies from a cardiovascular disease such as a heart attack or stroke in the United States every 39 seconds. Cardiovascular disease in the U.S. alone claims the lives of more than 800,000 adults each year, 150,000 of whom are under the age of 65.

Two main reasons people have cardiovascular disease are high blood pressure and cholesterol, which are common, deadly and preventable. 68 million US adults have high blood pressure and 71 million US adults have high cholesterol. Far too few people have these conditions under control, even if they have health insurance. In fact, more than 80% of people who don't have their high blood pressure or cholesterol under control already have health insurance, indicating that for most patients, health insurance is not sufficient to achieve control.

Guiding Principles

The principles of statistical audit design involve: looking at the resources available, the restrictions under which one must work, the mathematical and statistical tools available, the accumulated knowledge of certain characteristics of the populations to be sampled and putting these together to arrive at the optimum design for the purpose at hand

Auditmetrics has conducted numerous audits of both financial and healthcare data. It has developed specialized software to define the most efficient sampling structure. Efficiency here is in terms of minimizing statistical error.

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