The Strategic Ongoing Role of Disease Management in the Healthcare Continuum: Achieving the ROI

Summary: Nightly data mining has helped Vanderbilt University and Medical Center identify and make contact with high-risk high-volume patients, explains Dr. Dexter Shurney, which has vastly improved patient outcomes and closed care gaps. But the medical director of Vanderbilt's Employee Health and Care Plan would like to see even more data put in front of physicians at the point of care --- especially regarding certain patients with no claims history. Dr. Shurney describes these "bombs waiting to explode," as well as the impact of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care on disease management and why wellness and prevention services may be the best responses to individuals with comorbidities. Dr. Shurney, along with Dr. Ariel Linden, Dr.P.H., M.S., president of Linden Consulting Group, examined how disease management programs can continue to prove their worth and new developments in disease management that are netting results during The Strategic Ongoing Role of Disease Management in the Healthcare Continuum: Achieving the ROI.