The links below are published to help small employers understand more about the work of the Taskforce and our partnering organizations. These links are not necessarily endorsed by all Taskforce members, nor is the Taskforce monitoring each website for updates and changes.
There are many confusing terms associated with health care, health insurance, and the coming ACA reforms. In lieu of making our own glossary page, the following links are to two comprehensive health care glossary sites:
http://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/a/index.html
http://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/
The following links provide information on health care reforms that embody the Health Insurance Small Employer Taskforce principles:
Currentcare, Rhode Island’s Health Information Exchange. Register yourself and your dependents to give your doctors and other care providers secure and confidential access to your health records in order to provide the best possible and most comprehensive care:
http://www.currentcareri.org/matriarch/default.asp
Primary Care Networks, including Patient Centered Medical Homes:
http://www.pcmhri.org/
http://www.emmisolutions.com/medicalhome/transformed/index.html
Evidence Based Medicine:
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/ebm.pdf
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/whatis.htm
Wellness Programs:
http://wellnessprogramsatwork.com/
http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/05/wellness-program.html
Small Employer Health Insurance Taskforce Partnering Organizations
Rhode Island Business Group on Health
http://www.ribgh.org/
Health RIght
http://www.rihealthright.org/
Small Business Association of New England
http://www.sbane.org/
Providence Design
http://www.providencedesign.com
Rhode Island Government Offices Concerned with issues of Health Care and Health Insurance Reform:
Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner
http://www.ohic.ri.gov/
Office of the Lt. Governor:
http://www.ltgov.ri.gov/
The State of Rhode Island Health Reform Commission:
http://www.healthcare.ri.gov/
The Small Employer Health Insurance Taskforce is coordinated by the Providence Plan
http://www.provplan.org