Resources

Web sites

EMPAQ® (Employer Measures of Productivity, Absence and Quality)
A set of standardized metrics and benchmarking tools developed by the National Business Group on Health to help employers evaluate the effectiveness of their health and productivity management programs.

Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI)
The IBI provides the resources to help employers embrace a new view, helping employers transform health into an investment in health-related workforce productivity. This view extends far beyond medical care to impact and manage absence, disability, job performance and productivity.

Institute for Healthcare Productivity Management
The Institute for Healthcare Productivity Management was created in to make employee health an investment in corporate success through enhanced workplace performance.  Employers' desire for value has led them to insist that costs be controlled while quality is measured and improved.   A larger concept of healthcare expands the definition of value to include employee performance on the job--or productivity.

National Business Group on Health
The National Business Group on Health is the nation’s only non-profit organization devoted exclusively to representing large employers’ perspective on national health policy issues and providing practical solutions to its members’ most important health care problems.

Disability Management Employers Coalition
The DMEC’s primary goal is to assist employers in developing cost-saving programs, encouraging responsive market products, and returning employees to productive employment. The DMEC provides educational resources to its members in the areas of disability, absence, health, and productivity.

Periodicals


Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy, Authors: Ronald Loeppke, MD, MPH, Michael Taitel, PhD, Dennis Richling, MD, Thomas Parry, PhD, Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, Pam Hymel, MD, MPH and Doris Konicki, MHS

CHMS Articles

Is Your Business Healthy?, Author: Chris Skisak, PhD


Other Resources

Strategic Health Planning: A Guide for Senior Executives, Authors: Randall K. Abbott, Watson-Wyatt 2008