The increasing burden of chronic disease in the United States and other industrialized nations continues to drive healthcare costs to new heights...

Advanced analytic and forecasting methodologies can enable organisations to more fully leverage the data resources available to them. In the healthcare industry, service providers can use data mining methods to enhance the decision-making process in optimising...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether elective use of a health plan–sponsored health club membership had an impact on health care use and costs among older adults with diabetes...

Regular use of a health club benefit was associated with slower growth in total health care costs in the long term but not in the short term...

Diabetes mellitus places a significant burden on the U.S. health care system. This article describes the Diabetes Healthways program, a comprehensive disease management program for people with diabetes...

Diabetes mellitus places a significant burden on the U.S. healthcare system. Because of the potential to reduce diabetic complications and costs through intensive management, diabetes has become a primary target for disease management programs...

A prevalent, chronic condition among members of the mushrooming elderly population in the United States, heart failure (HF) is a logical focus for population-based disease management...

This report documents the clinical improvements and costs experienced by a purchaser after introduction of a diabetes disease management program...

Diabetes disease management programs(DDMPs) are proliferating, but their effectiveness in improving quality and mitigating healthcare spending has been difficult to measure...

The purpose of this report is to estimate diabetes prevalence and annual health care costs for people with diabetes in 1992, compare average annual costs for diabetics and nondiabetics...

Abstract Organizations across industry sectors have intensified their initiatives to increase operational efficiency through effective resource allocation, and the health care sector is no exception. The health care industry has been faced with a number of additional factors that

Jane (not her real name), a woman in her 50s with heart failure, coronary artery disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota’s (Blue Cross) care support program in November 2004. Care support

PopWorks, an innovative population health management system, promises to produce solutions that will not only strengthen patient-physician relationships, but also significantly impact overall health care expenditures.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – March 17, 2004 – American Healthways (Nasdaq: AMHC) and its Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota partner are recipients of the 2004 AstraZeneca-National Managed Health Care Congress (NMHCC) Partnership Award for their BluePrint for Health® program, award sponsors announced Tuesday in New York. BluePrint for Health® is the first total population disease management program proven to bend a health plan’s overall health-care cost trend by improving the health of members with chronic diseases and conditions.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Unveils 1st Year Program Results.

Outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries participating in American Healthways' comprehensive disease management program, diabetes Healthways, show a 17.1 percent or $114 per diabetes member per month reduction in total direct health care costs for the first year of operation.

Reducing Health Care Costs for Plan Members with Congestive Heart Failure. People with chronic illnesses such as diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure (CHF) consume more than 60% of the medical care dollars spent in the US. Patients with CHF alone will account for $19.4 billion in direct health care costs in 2001, and an additional $21.0 billion in indirect costs in the form of lost productivity and mortality.

Abstract A convergence of market, clinical, regulatory, and consumer forces is creating a strong demand for high quality and cost effective health care services. Meeting this pressing need is one of the greatest challenges managed care organizations (MCOs), employers, and

Maximizing participation: The problems with patient enrollment

Employees need information and support to manage their own health - you need new ways to lower health care costs. BluePrint for Health care support makes it happen.

Finally. What’s good for business is good for people. Health care costs are at the forefront of issues facing business today.

This article reports on the outcomes associated with remote physiological monitoring (RPM) conducted as part of a heart failure disease management program.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota recently announced receipt of three awards for excellence from the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium, in recognition of cost savings and improved quality of care achieved through the plan’s disease management efforts. The

The number of individuals aging into the Medicare Program is projected to increase dramatically between 2010 and 2030 due to the aging of the “baby boomers.” As a result, the total number of Medicare beneficiaries is projected to grow from the 2008 level of 45 million to nearly 80 million by 2030.

Nonadherence to daily health behaviors is an enormous burden to the US healthcare system. Current interventions to improve medication adherence often are costly, intrusive, and overall minimally effective.

Healthcare cost trends have long been moving in the wrong direction. Some employers have success- fully reduced the upward trajectory of health-related expenses...