This is the sixth and final piece in a series of discussions of disease management. It is probably fitting that the discussion of disease management for behavioral health (BH) is left for last, because that is often what happens to patients
Recently, I have been thinking about solo efforts vs. team efforts. When I was in medical school, almost all of the teaching was directed towards learning how to care for one patient at a time. And for much of my
As organizations take on financial risk and transition away from fee-for-service to value-based models of care, focus has intensified on how to effectively manage the riskiest and most expensive patients. In this value-based world, patient engagement, chronic disease management, and