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MS Society Care Manager by Nadja Y. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:54pm I thought that I might take a brief moment to tell other folks about the help I am getting from the National MS Society. Several months back I had a relapse and during that time I grew desperate for help and answers so I called the National MS Society to see how they could help me. I was looking for help with free counseling services. Although Read on »

Aarkstore Enterprise- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 - Market Research by Aarkstore Posted Thu 24 Jun 2010 2:44am Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 - Conference Review and Analysis Summary Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS... by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and held from March 1 – 4, 2010 in Atlanta in the US. The report provides key data and information on the products Read on »

Nutrition and Metabolism Society: The place to go to get the most accurate information on low-carb and Diabetes management by Cassandra F. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Wed 26 Aug 2009 10:06pm I often receive emails asking me where people can learn about the science behind low-carbohydrate diets and where to learn more about how to best manage diabetes, heart disease and metabolic syndrome. The first place I send them is to the Nutrition and Metabolism Society's website which includes information from the top diabetes and low-carb Read on »

The ultimate guidelines for managing adult congenital heart disease from European society of cardiology ! by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 18 Sep 2010 6:38am The classical statistics says Congenital heart disease occurs .8/1000 in general population. Survival into adult hood is an entirely different story .In the last half a century , cardiac surgeons ably assisted by anestheteists (Most dedicated ,Hats off !) , interventional cardiologists (With some conflicts !) have lifted up the survival ... Read on »

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 »

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