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<title>Claremont Partners</title>
<link>http://www.claremontpartners.net</link>
<description><![CDATA[Claremont Partners is a new company that develops creative health and productivity solutions for employers and health benefit trustees. Claremont Partner's inaugural service offering, Human Factor Integrator&trade;, was developed based on insights gleaned through the deep industry experiences of the principals, Tom Bjornson and Dr. Phil Polakoff. They have spent over 30 years each developing successful businesses that focus on solving health, behavioral, and personal needs for the tens of thousands of individuals and hundreds of HR, benefit, and risk managers in the public and private sectors with whom they have worked. Both men have served as trusted advisors to Taft-Hartley Trust Funds.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:54:43 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>Claremont Collaborates with CHHS to Secure Privacy</title>
<link>http://www.claremontpartners.net/news/2010/05/27/claremont-collaborates-with-chhs-to-secure-privacy/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:46:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today Claremont Partners presented its working paper on how to best align California's Confidentiality of Medical Information Act with HIPAA. The paper was presented at the most recent meeting of the Privacy, Security, and Accountability ("CalPSAB") Legal Committee, organized by the California Health and Human Services Office of Health Integrity.
According to Devon Devine, a partner with Claremont, "We represent stakeholders who are concerned with not just the absolute protection of medical information...]]></description>
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<title>Accountable Care Integrator Program Completed</title>
<link>http://www.claremontpartners.net/news/2009/11/18/accountable-care-integrator-program-completed/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:59:01 -0700</pubDate>
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Although health purchasers have recognized the importance of health and wellness, and their impact on productivity, few at this time have developed a formalized health and productivity strategy&nbsp;and tactical roll-out plan. Today, Claremont Partners announced the completion of its Accountable Care Integrator program to address these needs. According to Tom Bjornson, managing partner at Claremont, &ldquo;Accountable Care Integrator is a step-by-step planning and implementation methodology that empowers labor and management and systematically engages and positively addresses complex human factor issues in the workplace.]]></description>
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<title>Bjornson is Member of NBGH Workgroup That Developed Guide for Strategic Integration of EAP</title>
<link>http://www.claremontpartners.net/news/2009/02/25/bjornson-is-member-of-nbgh-workgroup-that-developed-guide-for-strategic-integration-of-eap/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:10:32 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Business Group on Health's Center for Prevention and Health Services has published, "An Employer's Guide to Employee Assistance Programs." Tom Bjornson was a member of the workgroup that developed the report which focuses on strategically defining, integrating and measuring EAPs. A copy of the report is available in Resources.]]></description>
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<title>Claremont Partners Introduces Accountable Care Integrator To Benefit Consultants and Health Care Leaders</title>
<link>http://www.claremontpartners.net/news/2009/01/14/claremont-partners-introduces-accountable-care-integrator-to-benefit-consultants-and-health-care-leaders/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Health benefit consultants and Taft-Hartley plan trustees continue to respond enthusiastically to Claremont Partners&rsquo; strategic benefit integration solution, Accountable Care Integrator (ACI), according to principals Tom Bjornson and Phil Polakoff, MD.
&ldquo;In the past several weeks we&rsquo;ve met with a dozen or more executives to discuss their growing concerns about out of control health benefit costs and the critical need to raise the bar on performance of labor/management health benefit programs,&rdquo; according to Bjornson.]]></description>
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