S A Blackwell, S L Szeinbach, J H Barnes, D D Garner
{"title":"A systems-based disease management model: achieving optimal health care outcomes.","authors":"S A Blackwell, S L Szeinbach, J H Barnes, D D Garner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, the \"disease management system model\" is presented, which is applicable to health care providers practicing in community, hospital, and long-term care settings. The core service of patient information for diabetic care is used to demonstrate how the model integrates individual system components involved in health care delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 12","pages":"82-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building bridges: marketing managed care to ethnically diverse populations.","authors":"M B Rosen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>America's population \"stew\" creates specific challenges to health plans attempting to reach ethnically differentiated enrollee groups. In this article, the author provides snapshots of four ethnic groups, suggests some marketing considerations when preparing communications to these groups, and helps draw some conclusions about marketing managed care products to a culturally diverse population.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 12","pages":"64-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicare risk programs and pharmacy benefits managers.","authors":"J Herzfeld","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With 80% of all Medicare risk programs offering some type of prescription benefit, the management of that prescription benefit plays an important role in the success of the Medicare managed care plan. This article examines the issues and success factors involved in designing and managing prescription benefits program for seniors.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 12","pages":"75-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21044253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving disease state management: identifying how service beliefs differ.","authors":"C M Kozma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 12","pages":"80-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities and challenges of managed Medicare.","authors":"R P Navarro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 12","pages":"69-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social HMOs: lessons learned and future direction.","authors":"T C Schwab","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brandeis University researchers collaborated with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to develop the \"social HMO\" concept in the early 1980s. Four initial sites in Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis; Brooklyn, New York; and Long Beach, California, implemented programs in 1985. Its success has prompted HCFA to expand the program, which is similar to a Medicare risk-contracting HMO but with more comprehensive benefits and a modified funding mechanism, to six new sites by the end of this year.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 12","pages":"106-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care integration: the role of information technologies.","authors":"D West, S Szeinbach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Information technologies are rapidly becoming the major process drivers of health care system integration. These integrated information systems will emanate from MCOs and pervade the entire health care system at each level of service delivery. Suggestions for facilitating the integration process and the role of pharmaceutical industry, wholesalers, service providers, and end users are discussed herein.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 11","pages":"102-6, 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21034578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A conversation with Harriet Brown.","authors":"H P Brown","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"9 11","pages":"56-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21034582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}