Florida officials have renewed an innovative disease management experiment offered through the state’s Medicaid program by four of the country’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers. The two-year ...

Background: Organizations have invested in disease management programs to improve quality and to reduce costs, but little is known about the labor characteristics and the program costs necessary to ...

Objectives: To document the rise in copayments for patients in disease management programs and to call attention to the inherent conflicts that exist between these 2 approaches to benefit design.

Leader Training for the “You Can! Live Well, Virginia!” Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) will be held on January 17, 18, 24 and 25 from 9:00 – 4:00 at the Carilion Stonewall Jackson ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heart disease management programs are effective in the primary care setting, according to a report in the November issue of Heart. Sign up here. Disease management programs ...

Vol. 36, No. 3, Special Section: THE GALWAY CONSENSUS CONFERENCE: ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN CREDENTIALING FOR GLOBAL HEALTH PROMOTION (June 2009), pp. 505-517 (13 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Echosens, a high-technology company offering the FibroScan family of products, today announces the release of its white paper authored by Dr. Reed Hogan, M.D., GI ...

There’s no question it’s in everyone’s best interest to have healthy, engaged employees. Employees who avoid illness see lower healthcare costs, while employers see lower absenteeism rates. But ...

The program serves to monitor patients' chronic conditions and enable them to take control of their health. In the early days of the pandemic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, ...

Atrium Health researchers are investigating ways to enhance high blood pressure care while making treatment more convenient ...