Disease Management news and information

While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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On the heels of the Institute of Medicine calling U.S. cancer care “increasingly chaotic and costly,” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is starting an alliance of community cancer providers. It named Hartford HealthCare, a five-hospital system in Connecticut, as the...
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While nearly 26 million people are affected by diabetes in the U.S., not everyone has access to the care and services that allow for successful disease management.
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Many hospitals and health systems are making the shift from caring for the very sick to focusing on improving the living conditions of communities they serve by concentrating on disease prevention and reducing waste and toxic products.
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The Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego has launched a six-month “Wired for Health” study to evaluate the effectiveness of using mobile health devices to reduce healthcare costs.
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The authors of Cracking Health Costs say more companies should re-evaluate their approach to wellness programs.
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Should hospitals focus on the specific diseases that lead to the most readmissions, or should they look at internal issues that may be driving their overall readmission rates higher? It's a crucial question as hospital leaders search for ways to improve outcomes and avoid rising Medicare penalties...
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Patients are more likely to fill prescriptions that treat costly, chronic diseases when health insurers offer them a financial incentive to do so through value-based insurance design. That's the good news in a research review just published by the journal Health Affairs.
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The U.S. will have to do more to prevent chronic illness than simply managing it better in order to save significantly on costs for Medicare's most expensive patients, a new study suggests.
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ActiveCare, which provides remote health monitoring for diabetes and chronic disease management, has named Jonathan Olson its chief technology officer.
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