Over the past 10 years chronic disease management (DM) has been done primarily by "outside" disease management organizations (DMOs)--health plans and private companies. Doctors and other local care providers have felt left out of the equation.

Whether local care providers will be involved in DM in the future is no longer an issue--it's happening, and the pace of provider involvement will only increase. The only question is how?

• The Achilles' Heels of Today's DMOs
  • Lack of integration with care providers
  • Lack of IT integration
• Capsulizing Today's DM landscape
  • Two models of care
    • DM Organizations—health plans and private companies
    • Chronic Care Model
  • Medicare pilot projects relating to chronic care: Medicare Health Support (MHS), Physician Group Practice (PGP), Special Needs Plans (SNPs) , Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries, CMHCB, Medical Home model
• The Inevitable Integration of Providers & IT into Chronic DM Programs
• Case studies of successful provider involvement
• Critical success factors

Training Objectives

Participants in this training program will:

• Review the two models for chronic care: DMOs and the Chronic Care Model
• Learn about trends influencing provider integration in DM
• Gain and understanding of the powerful role that IT will play in the future of chronic care
• Examine early models of provider involvement in DM

Who Can Use This Program?

• CIO
• HIT director
• IT Manager
• Nursing IT Manager
• Chief Medical Officer
• Finance Office Personnel
• Other C-Level Executives
• Marketing

 

 

About the Speakers|

		Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA is Principal and founder of Better Health Technologies, LLC (www.bhtinfo.com). BHT consults to companies in developing strategy, partnerships and business models for chronic disease management and eHealth applications delivered in homes, workplaces, and communities.
BHT's clients are both established organizations and early-stage companies, including: Intel Digital Health Group, Philips Electronics, Joslin Diabetes Center, Samsung Electronics, Siemens Medical Solutions, Medtronic, Varian Medical Systems, Disease Management Association of America, and many others. Vince brings 23 years health care experience in multiple roles: President, VP Corporate Development, VP operations, management consultant, and marketing executive. His consulting and work projects span 100+ different health care organizations, including hospitals, physician groups, medical devices, pharma, health plans, disease management, e-Health, IT, and others. He speaks frequently at industry conferences and corporate events. He was the opening keynote speaker at the Healthcare Unbound conferences in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and has spoken at about 35 conferences in the past 3 years.

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Randall Williams, MD, FACC, is the CEO of Pharos Innovations, LLC, a patient adherence technology company focused on enhancing healthcare for chronic illnesses. Dr. Williams received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as well as his training as a board certified cardiologist specializing in heart failure care. He holds an appointment as Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and has performed research and published extensively on topics related to chronic disease. He serves on the National American College of Cardiology Disease Management Task Force. Dr. Williams is associated with Midwest Heart Specialists, the largest single specialty cardiology group in Northern Illinois.

What Is Included?

The CD includes the audio of the presentation, the slides prepared by the speaker and a .pdf file of the slides for printing. Your computer does need an audio component to use this CD.