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Where Is The Medically-Directed Exercise

WebTwo decades after CDD, America’s health system approach to exercise is – quite frankly – stuck in the 1980s. Very few doctors prescribe medically-directed exercise, though perhaps 4 in 10 primary care patients are good …

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Importance of the Physical Activity Vital Sign

WebPAVS = (MVPA minutes/day) x (# of days/week) The US Department of Health and Human Services recommends that all adults should do at least 150 minutes/week of MVPA. An …

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About Us Sustainable Health Systems

WebThe Sustainable Health Questionnaire (SHQ) is a 2nd-generation online health assessment questionnaire. The initial concept was developed in the 1990s by Professor William L. …

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Sustainable Health Questionnaire (SHQ)

WebWe use questionnaire items from the CDC, WHO and others in the public domain in order to keep our quality high and your costs low. The scoring system behind the SHQ was …

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Yes, Exercise is a Medicinebut Who is Prescribing it

WebThe American health care system must solve the so-called “upstream” biopsychosocial factors that cause ~85% of our health outcomes. We can't keep putting "band-aids" on …

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Physical Functioning and Preserving Quality-of-Life

WebThe sad truth is that our health care system assigns negligible value to the central aspect of health and well-being - quality-of-life. Volunteer-led psychosocial programs for disease …

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Demand a Wellness Visit with Your PCP

WebWellness visits are about how you can preserve health, reduce your burden of chronic disease, improve quality-of-life and, maybe, live longer (it has been proven that active …

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Stepping Outside the Box

WebWhat our health care system truly needs is a scalable solution for delivering health and well-being services through mainstream medical practices. In 2003, I became acutely …

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Whither Goes Lifestyle in the Wake of Ozempic

WebThe low-priced but more difficult way, would be to estimate the per-person costs of excess weight. Annual health care costs secondary to excess weight are estimated at $173B …

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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Individualization of Care

WebTwo health ecology factors - smoking and exercise - have been proven by epidemiologists to be the two most dominant modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. When …

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Exercise is the Antidote Sustainable Health Systems

WebExercise is the Antidote. Sunday, August 24, 2014. Diabetes is one of America’s biggest lurking health system catastrophes, which concerns us greatly at Sustainable Health …

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Exercise as Medicine Sustainable Health Systems

WebHealth care systems need to overcome the lack of interaction between the medical and exercise professions. Few physicians are well trained in the use of medically directed …

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Sustainable Health Systems

WebSustainable Health Systems is a physician-led team that has designed and developed software to meet the unique operational needs of a clinical service line geared towards …

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Neuromuscular Relaxation for Stress Management

WebThere are a number of tools that help develop mastery over stress, in part because they help clarify the role of feelings and help one be more patient. Diaphragmatic breathing, …

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Health Ecology as the Actual Cause of Chronic Disease and Mortality

WebDoing so will require health care teams to adopt tools from epidemiology and behavioral medicine, in order to systematically address 2 key issues: 1) Assess health ecology (i.e., …

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Annual Wellness Visits

WebTuesday, December 1, 2015. The New England Journal of Medicine recently ran a Pro -vs- Con op-ed debate on the merits of well-patient visits in primary care. Like other such …

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Products & Services Sustainable Health Systems

WebSustainable Health's cloud-based TrueNorth is designed to help you and your patients work together to improve their health and well-being.• Health Risk Assessment - diet, physical …

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Stepping Outside the Box

WebHealth coaches, health educators, nutritionists and exercise physiologists can be key members of such a team. Many practices already employ staff members and nurses who …

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2024 CMS Physician Fee Schedule Rewards Health Promotion

WebOn November 2, CMS issued its 2024 Medicare Physician’s Fee Schedule (PFS), which sets the payment benchmark for most health plans in the United States. Where …

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Compassionate Use for Community-Based Interventions

WebHealth plan administrators call for clinicians to stick to EBM, but this approach often leads to offering no help at all and does substantial emotional harm. Many patients have come to …

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The mobile Electronic Coaching Record (mECR) Sustainable …

WebThe recent CMS decision to cover billing codes for health and wellness coaching will bring operational challenges to medical practices that bring on health …

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Silver Lining in the Proposed Changes to Physician Payments for …

WebCovering SDOH and health coaching is really big in two ways: 1) it’s acknowledging that our disease-care system does not actually produce health (“health …

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