Listen to David Ahern, Ph.D., Sr Scientist and Co-Founder of Abacus Health and Dr. Charles Eaton, Primary Care Physician as they discuss a behavior based diabetes intervention which drives patients to their PCP and the resulting impacts on health outcomes, hospitalizations, costs and quality metrics. https://youtu.be/u-I_HJDEKyQ
Mitigating the Rise of Self Insured Employer Health Care Costs for Chronic Populations – a webinar done with World Congress and the Validation Institute
Listen to David Ahern, Ph.D., Sr Scientist and Co-Founder of Abacus Health and Nora Costa, VP of Total Rewards from Mapfre Insurance discuss how utilizing relevant and contingent incentives to drive engagement in core care activities with user's physicians can improve health, reduce hospitalizations and lower costs for chronically ill...
Abacus CEO Michael Follick, Ph.D interviewed by Adam Torres from the Mission Matters Podcast
Focused on people’s health, Michael Follick, Ph.D., CEO of Abacus Health Solutions, discusses the importance of behavioral science in managing chronic illness in this interview. While talking about Abacus Health Solutions, Dr. Follick discusses the foundational factors within the company that drive improved health outcomes and reduce the risk and...
Abacus Diabetes Program Earns Validation
Abacus Health Solutions is proud to announce its Diabetes Care Rewards Program has earned Validation from the Validation Institute, a trusted independent source to certify marketing and results claims.The program earned Level 1 - savings validation. A Level 1 savings validation states the program can produce a reduction of health...
Abacus Publishes Diabetes Management Article in American Journal of Managed Care
Abacus Health Solutions (Abacus), a pioneer in behaviorally focused chronic health condition management, announces the publishing of Behavior-Based Diabetes Management: Impact on Care, Hospitalizations, and Costs in the American Journal of Managed Care’s March 2021 edition. The study examines the impact of the Abacus’s Diabetes Care Rewards Program, a behavioral...
Abacus Secures Patent on Behavioral Science approach to Chronic Health Condition Management
Abacus Health Solutions , a pioneer in behaviorally focused chronic health condition management, announces the award of a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is titled Incentive Based Discount System. The patent, US Patent No. 10,853,452,B1 represents a combination of modern technology and behavioral science to...
Surge in diabetes related complications leads to dramatic rise in hospitalizations
In an article published this week in the Journal American Medical Association Network (JAMA Network) by Edward W. Gregg, PhD1,2; Israel Hora, PhD1; Stephen R. Benoit, MD1 risks of lower extremity amputation, kidney failure, and cardiovascular events along with hospital admissions among patients diagnosed with diabetes are on the rise as compared to the 10 previous years. In...
Abacus partners with Health Action Council for education event.
Abacus Health's senior scientist, Dr. David K. Ahern is set to conduct an educational workshop for the Health Action Council's membership on May 21, 2019 entitled Bending the Diabetes Cost Trend. Dr. Ahern will share the results of a study summarizing a decade-long implementation of the Abacus Health Diabetes Care...