Centrally assisted collaborative telecare is a cost-effective strategy relative to usual care for treating posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in the Military Health System.
Even in communities with health information technology initiatives, consumer use of personal health records may be limited by the
This study demonstrates that it is possible to generate a highly accurate model to predict inpatient and emergency department utilization using data on socioeconomic determinants of care.
This article reviews the mobile clinic sector's impact on access, quality, and costs, and explores postreform opportunities for leveraging them nationally.
Authors from My Gene Counsel discuss gaps in CMS reimbursement policy for genetic testing and counseling, in light of advances in guidelines from groups that include the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Criteria used by primary care physicians to select patients for practice-based care management programs were explored in a qualitative study.
Increasing adherence to inhaled corticosteroids for Medicaid-enrolled children with asthma could cost-effectively decrease both Medicaid spending and adverse clinical outcomes.
Data from mHealth can inform, assess, anticipate, and aid in interventions while monitoring and coordinating patient health status and care.
Expanding primary care teams with trained and supported paraprofessionals enables systematic delivery of widely recommended, evidence-based, cost-saving alcohol, drug, and depression screening and intervention services.
Patient financial incentives are a potential mechanism to improve health. In a South African health plan, a patient incentive program is associated with increased prevention.
This article describes the development and capabilities of a Webbased decision support system for care managers working in the context of the chronic care model.
Wide variation in the way clinical services are provided to similar patients for similar visit types results in highly variable costs but similar clinical outcomes.
In a cohort of 449 patients with colorectal cancer in the VA health system, diagnostic resource use varied with facility, patient age, and patient presentation.
This study explored barriers to the transition of obese patients from hospital to community as perceived by case managers, nursing home directors, and home health directors.
The combination of electronic medical record data and administrative data provides the fullest picture of patient health histories.
We used aggregated pharmacy claims data available within the electronic health record to identify a high rate of primary nonadherence in a nonintegrated primary care network.
This study compared the requesting patterns for acute phase markers from primary care departments in different institutions in Spain.