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Health & Disease Management | HDM Services | Health Industries Research Companies (HIRC) Research Overview The Care Management Service focuses on care management initiatives within managed care customer segments. This research provides benchmarking profiles of manufacturers' care management program investment across commercial health plan and Medicare segments, and also includes an overview of specialty therapeutic disease management, patient-centered medical home, and accountable care organizations. Computer Security Resource Center Disease management (health) Disease management is defined as "a system of coordinated healthcare interventions and communications for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant."[1][2][3] Illnesses that disease management would concern itself with would include: coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), kidney failure, hypertension, heart failure, obesity, diabetes mellitus, asthma, cancer, arthritis, clinical depression, sleep apnea, osteoporosis, and other common ailments. In the United States, disease management is a large industry with many vendors. Major disease management organizations based on revenues and other criteria[4][5] include Accordant (a subsidiary of Caremark), Alere (now including ParadigmHealth and Matria Healthcare),[6] Caremark (excluding its Accordant subsidiary), Evercare, Health Dialog, Healthways, LifeMasters (now part of StayWell), LifeSynch (formerly Corphealth),[7] Magellan, McKesson Health Solutions, and MedAssurant.

Welcome to CSX.com - CSX Creating the continuum of care. - PubMed Mobile Notes Design Blog Velda Bartek January 12 2012 07:50:02 AM We've been so busy getting ready for Lotusphere 2012, we forgot to tell you what we have planned for you. Here's a list of the activities. You really want to stop by to see Social Mail with Eric Wilcox. Eric is a first time Lotusphere attendee. Kathy Howard will be there to talk about Domino Designer and XPages. I'll add some more info tomorrow, be sure to stop back. Velda Bartek Lotus Design on Facebook and Twitter Participate in activities going on in the User Experience Lab View the latest product design concepts, experience mobile product designs, talk to our social solutions designers, and provide feedback to improve the information experience. Lab Hours: Monday, January 16 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM Tuesday, January 17 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM Wednesday, January 18 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM Thursday, January 19 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Visit these stations in the lab located in Asia 4: Station 1: IBM User Research and Future Studies Station 2: Connections and LotusLive

Care Continuum Alliance | Population Health Improvement Defined The Care Continuum Alliance promotes a proactive, accountable, patient-centric population health improvement model featuring a physician-guided health care delivery system designed to develop and engage informed and activated patients over time to address both illness and long term health. Care Continuum Alliance members believe that managing health requires the active, integrated involvement of all health care professionals coordinated with the patient and their caregivers and families. We offer these principles to describe the elements of this fully-connected health system, leveraging teams of care providers, focused on proactive, coordinated, quality health care. The accountability for delivering and coordinating appropriate cost-effective care and the credit for achieving targeted improvement and goals for population health must be explicitly recognized and proportionately rewarded. Key components of the population health improvement model include:

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Care Continuum Alliance | Achieving Accountable Care: Essential Population Health Management Tools for ACOs User Agreement Patient-centered primary care practices and health information technology are building blocks for accountable care organizations (ACOs), but what other resources are essential for success? This new toolkit and resource guide from the Care Continuum Alliance answers that question with a discussion of the care coordination and population health strategies and tools necessary to fully achieve accountable care. Health risk assessments, predictive modeling and other risk stratification approaches. The Care Continuum Alliance is making this valuable toolkit available as a free download with completion of a brief user agreement. Please note: Completion of this user agreement is required for access to the toolkit.

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