December 15, 2016
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
December 9, 2016
In today’s Disease Management (DM) segment, I am focusing on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), one of the six top diseases or entities to manage with a DM Program in the Medicare (over age 65) population: heart failure diabetes chronic
October 28, 2016
I previously wrote about the benefits of capturing certain populations of patients in a registry and disease management program. In the Medicare population, disease management programs are especially useful for patients with six major conditions: heart failure diabetes chronic kidney disease chronic
August 1, 2016
I previously wrote about the benefits of capturing certain populations of patients in a registry and disease management program. In the Medicare population, disease management programs are especially useful for patients with six major conditions: heart failure diabetes chronic kidney
July 22, 2016
In a recent blog post, I talked about the benefits of capturing certain populations of patients in a registry and disease management program. In the Medicare population, disease management programs are especially useful for patients with six major conditions: heart
June 2, 2016
I previously used the example of Chronic Kidney Disease to highlight how good data and IT is essential to constructing and running any successful disease management program. In this post, I am going to describe the rationale for and the
May 19, 2016
In medical school, doctors learn how to take care of patients one at a time. But, we are not taught how to care for populations. The latter is important, because many patients can fall between the cracks of care without
