Choosing Wisely® Employer Toolkit now available

To make it easier for employers to educate their employees about the importance of talking with their physicians about their medical care, the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) and Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) released the Choosing Wisely® Employer Toolkit. 

Developed in collaboration with Consumer Reports and with participation from the Midwest Business Group on Health and the Minnesota Health Action Group, the Toolkit was developed to assist employers in educating their employees about Choosing Wisely®. The program is the ABIM Foundation’s initiative to encourage physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders to think and talk about medical tests and procedures that may be unnecessary, and in some instances can cause harm. 

More than 25 leading medical specialty societies are working with the ABIM Foundation to create recommendations for physician/patient discussion. Consumer Reports leads the consumer-facing communication of the ABIM Foundation’s multi-year initiative by translating the clinical recommendations gathered into insightful tips and free resources for the general public.

The new Toolkit will also distribute a broad array of consumer-focused health resources available from Consumer Reports including patient-education materials based on dozens of topics identified by medical specialty societies for the Choosing Wisely® initiative.