Over the past several years, the healthcare industry has been struggling as a whole for effective ways to manage chronic disease and illness. In the US and in countries with socialized medicine, healthcare has either been rationed, restricted or had access limited to various healthcare services...

The US disease management (DM) industry continues to endorse the use of the methodologically flawed pre-post design to evaluate financial outcomes, which regularly reports returns on investment of up to 8___1. This is in sharp contrast to the peer-reviewed literature and large Medicare...

Disease management relies on a team approach to chronic diseases for which good treatment regimens are known and national data are available. Limitations of and opportunities for disease management programs are explored and a case is presented that the inclusion of social work can enhance the...

Among the typical employer's workforce, there are employees with various physical and psychological conditions that may affect their healthcare costs and productivity. One such condition, bipolar disorder, is especially costly. Despite many available treatments, a large portion of bipolar...

Predictive modeling in healthcare has been gaining more interest and utilization in recent years. The tools for doing this have become more sophisticated with increasingly higher accuracy. We present a case study of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used for a high quality predictive...

Disease management has become an increasingly popular tool used to manage people with chronic diseases in managed care organizations. The implementation of these programs, coupled with pressures to document quality and control costs, has increased the need for information regarding the health...

US employers are facing an unprecedented opportunity to contribute toward positive, disruptive innovations in healthcare. The convergence of major trends will enable employers to exercise significant leverage in controlling healthcare costs and improving quality. US healthcare is ripe for...