This morning the Disease Management Care Blog brought an interesting toolkit to my attention. It was published by AHRQ in August 2008, so it’s very recent.
This toolkit describes how to implement the Chronic Care Model (CCM) in your medical practice. The CCM is embedded in the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model and can be [...]
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Chronic Disease Management • Technology • Strategy • Issues and Trends
Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”
Dylan Thomas
Despite CMS’ recent cocktail hour pronouncement that Medicare Health Support (MHS) is on its last legs, many are fighting to prolong its life.
Recent Developments
DMAA is working with Sen. John Kerry to introduce legislation mandating the continuation [...]
Last week I did the major annual tune-up of my presentation on Disease Management Megatrends for the MCOL Future Care Web Summit.
I’m pleased to share a copy of the PowerPoint presentation with you, and I hope you find it useful and provocative. You can view and/or download a copy here (6MB). This version contains 77 slides, which would [...]
Over the past week I’ve been doing a major tune-up of my presentation on Disease Management Megatrends for the annual MCOL Future Care Web Summit.
More typically, DM Megatrends is 45–90 minute presentation with accompanying PowerPoint slides.
As part of the Web Summit, the good folks at MCOL asked me to do a short podcast on highlights of this presentation. They’re [...]
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA
The conventional wisdom in the disease management (DM) community has been that the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project would provide the evidence to resolve two issues:
First, MHS would once-and-for-all resolve the issue of “does DM have ROI? (return on investment).” It was thought that the randomized control [...]
The 1990’s experiment around development of integrated delivery systems (IDSs) mostly did not take root. This experiment was primarily about financial integration — doctors joining with hospitals so that they could together contract with health insurers for capitated reimbursement, hospitals starting their own health plan, or hospitals buying physician practices as a way of guaranteeing [...]
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New Technologies For Chronic Disease Management And Control: A Systematic Review
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