Disease Management Online: Critical Ingredients for Success
Today, health plans simply expect that their disease management services will be offered to their plan members via the Internet.
If your organization is working to strengthen your disease management programs, you and your colleagues have already had meetings about online disease management.
Now, you can get the latest thinking from leading experts in a special report produced by the Managed Care Information Center.
This one-of-a-kind discussion of the key trends on online disease management captures the thinking of four of the country's leading experts on the subject as transcribed during an exclusive audio conference on the subject sponsored by the MCIC's e-Healthcare Market Reporter. The pioneers in online disease management presented their perspectives on this emerging trend being made possible by the rapid adoption of the Internet across the country. Today, healthcare is one of the top reasons users log on to the Internet.This program covered the promise, the potential and the practical issues surrounding working toward online disease management. Get an overview of e-medicine from Robert E. Stone, of American Healthways, where online dm is seen as part of the organization's disease and care management programs. Because his organization serves some 300,000 individuals with chronic progressive disease, Stone believes they are 'able to see where our population stands" on using the Web.
Order today and get the perspective of dm pioneer Dr. Pieter Muntendam, chief medical officer of ProMedex, Inc. Get his analysis of physician centered dm models, and member-driven medical management. Learn what has been discovered thus far in changing behavior at the patient level. Quality plays heavy when discussing disease management from the provider's perspective, according to Dr. Carey Shames, until recently, a principal and chief medical officer of Physician & Hospital Solutions, now medical director for the Southwest region at Aetna US Healthcare. Gene Drabinski, president and COO of Healthwise, offered his 20 years of experience by covering online dm from the payor perspective.
If you've been looking for a compilation of sound, logical, current thinking on the "natural" evolution to online dm, order this special report today.
It's only a matter of time, whether you represent a healthcare provider or health plan, that your organization will need to put a plan together for Web-enabled online disease management.
This 53-page report of the proceedings also includes an enlightening series of questions and answers on such topics as outcomes, tools for outcomes research, "physician buy-in" and incentives, as well as patient confidentiality and security issues.
You'll also get information on emerging trends in disease management, dm in "action," and implementing dm programs.
Industry surveys have found that as many as one in three persons in some health plans choose Internet access over telephone and mail disease management programs.
