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The Disease Management Care Blog Summarizes the Latest Disease Management Journal - Read All About It! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am Many readers of the Disease Management Care Blog have probably found the April issue of Disease Management, the official journal of the DMAA, the Care Continuing Alliance.... Callan CM: Health information technology for the disease management. Dr. Callan also provides a brief ‘Point Of View’ that extols the virtues of health information technology Read on »

Another Study Proves Disease Managment Works - Even Though the Researchers Didn't Call It "Disease Management" but "Collaborativ by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 10 Jan 2011 5:56pm Two tiresome canards about "disease management" are that 1) it fails to address the full spectrum of patient care needs by being limited to one condition at a time, and 2) it leaves the patients' physicians out of the loop. While that may have characterized some of the earliest disease management programs back in the 1990s, both issues were quickly Read on »

The Bad and the Ugly of Disease Management ROI and How Al Lewis of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium Wants to Fix It by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 15 Apr 2009 11:48pm Al Lewis is a colleague of the Disease Management Care Blog. It’s always a treat running into a founder of the DMAA and the head of the Disease Management Purchasing...-as-usual disease management pre-post analyses being foisted on unsuspecting purchasers miserably fail to account for the persons with chronic illness that are missing in the baseline Read on »

The Disease Management Care Blog Interviews a Full-Risk Physician Group Medical Director: Does Disease Management Work? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am The Disease Management Care Blog had the opportunity to chat with the medical director of a >300 doc California-based physician group that, aside from some high cost... asked about that thingy called ‘disease management.’ This physician group has it and the medical director is convinced it works. They’ve hired the nurses that deploy remote Read on »

Kaiser's Electronic Messaging System and the Implications for Disease Management (and KP's own disease management programs) by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 3:54pm The Disease Management Care Blog has been slowly navigating through the latest issue of Health Affairs and wanted to draw readers' attention to the lead article.... If this occurred absent any change in clinic personnel then it would imply that practice efficiency increased. The implications for disease management (DM)? The DMCB still thinks Read on »

Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Disease Management by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am ? The Disease Management Care Blog suspects Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), which act as intermediaries between (seller) pharmaceutical manufacturers and (buyer) managed care health... investors skittish about possible over-reliance on that part of the business. Hence, the PBMs’ interest in using disease management as another additional way to bring value Read on »

Heart Failure Self Management Education Doesn't Work. That's Because It's Not Disease Management by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 22 Sep 2010 10:43am The Disease Management Care Blog finally caught up with the negative "Self-management Counseling in Patients with Heart Failure" study by Lynda Powel and colleagues... management was different compared to disease management which "keep[s] patients in a passive role and, as such, raise questions about optimum duration and cost effectiveness." Despite Read on »

Health Productivity Management for Employers that Engage Disease Management Organizations by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am Check out this succinct insightful article that appeared March 1 in Managed Healthcare Executive from Stonegate Strategic Advisors. In the opinion of the Disease Management Care Blog, disease management organizations should pay attention to four key employer-based messages in this well-written report: Interest in disease management Read on »

Disease Management, ie Population Health Management Organizations (PHMOs): Plan B to Support the Creation of the Patient Centere by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 02 Dec 2010 4:35am As the Disease Management Care Blog has previously pointed out , there is is a lot that the disease management industry has to offer the Patient Centered Medical Home... ingredients, PCMHs have an uphill battle managing a population of patients, building a team-based culture and marshaling resources to change patient behavior. Enter disease management Read on »

Disease management’s pushing drugs! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am ActiveHealth disease management organization (DMO). One employer reduced the co-pays across all tiers for some key drugs that have been indisputably shown to improve clinical outcomes...! The authors are being modest when they describe this as a study of the impact of a pharmacy co-pay reduction while holding disease management (and other sources of bias) neutral. While Read on »