Iowa Chronic Care Consortium has conducted one of the most extensive surveys of health coaching adoption and usage in clinical healthcare settings. In summary, the study found that investments in health coach programs can pay significant dividends for both the provider and patient, but that the adoption rate has been limited because healthcare organizations had […]
Why We Created Clinical Health Coach® Training
By William Appelgate, PhD Set in 2054, Steven Spielberg’s science fiction masterpiece Minority Report depicts a landscape where homicide is no longer punished because it doesn’t occur. Instead, talented staff, hi-tech systems, and advanced procedures are in place prevent it (albeit with the necessary theatrical flourishes and always just in the nick of time.) Prevention […]
Health Coaches: Linking Patient to Healthcare System
Health coaches are an integral part of managing chronic disease and are an invaluable asset as we move from volume based medicine to value based medicine in America. As in most complex industries just as it is in medicine the quality of the work done, safety and outcomes is dependent upon more than the efforts […]