Running head: DISEASE MANAGEMENT 1 DISEASE MANAGEMENT 4 Disease Management Weltee Wolo Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on April 17, 2017, Laura De La Cruz’s Foundations of Managed Care H310/HSA3109 course Disease Management Disease management entails the reduction of costs plus improving the quality of life for the persons suffering from chronic diseases. This is achieved through prevention and minimization of the effects of the conditions through an integrated care. It can be defined as a system of organized medical involvements and communications within a distinct patient populaces with conditioned where implementation of self-care efforts can be applied (Nolte&Osborne, 2013). Disease management empowers persons together with other health care providers so as to manage their conditions and prevent avoidable complications. The chronic diseases and associated complications are identified quite earlier, and more efficiently, hence the development of the diseases is slowed. Disease management has evolved as a hopeful approach for care improvement for the persons with chronic diseases. The common chronic conditions include; hypertension, diabetes mellitus, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, and coronary heart disease. Often, persons with chronic diseases end up using more health care services that are not coordinated among the health providers; thus the patients are prone to be subjected to overuse and underuse of medical care as the providers take advantage of the situation (Ahn, et al, 2013). Disease management is a practical and an organized approach directed to a health care delivery that incorporates all persons with chronic illness, includes patient self-management, measures results, supports the provider-patient relationship and plan of care, and evaluates health status regularly. It also enhances the patient care through disease prevention and active meditations by evidence-based procedures and strives to improve the general health and quality of life while lowering the cost of care. Disease management programs have been established, and they contain many components which make the programs effective. The components include; identification processes of the population, evidence-based practice guidelines, collaborative practice involvement which involve the physicians, psychologists, nurses. Also dieticians and pharmacists, identification of risks and corresponding of interventions to the need, educating patient of self-management, measurement, and evaluation of the processes and results, and trailing and observing the system. The aim of disease management is to encourage the patients to use medications correctly, to comprehend and see the symptoms more carefully and by all possible means change the behavior (Nolte & Osborne, 2013). Managed care system is an intervention that is well integrated with the disease management. Managed care organizations are in ...

1. Running head: DISEASE MANAGEMENT 1
DISEASE MANAGEMENT 4
Disease Management
Weltee Wolo
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on April 17, 2017, Laura De La
Cruz’s
Foundations of Managed Care H310/HSA3109 course
Disease Management
Disease management entails the reduction of costs plus
improving the quality of life for the persons suffering from
chronic diseases. This is achieved through prevention and
minimization of the effects of the conditions through an
integrated care. It can be defined as a system of organized
medical involvements and communications within a distinct
patient populaces with conditioned where implementation of
self-care efforts can be applied (Nolte&Osborne, 2013). Disease
management empowers persons together with other health care
providers so as to manage their conditions and prevent

2. avoidable complications. The chronic diseases and associated
complications are identified quite earlier, and more efficiently,
hence the development of the diseases is slowed.
Disease management has evolved as a hopeful approach for care
improvement for the persons with chronic diseases. The
common chronic conditions include; hypertension, diabetes
mellitus, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
congestive heart failure, and coronary heart disease. Often,
persons with chronic diseases end up using more health care
services that are not coordinated among the health providers;
thus the patients are prone to be subjected to overuse and
underuse of medical care as the providers take advantage of the
situation (Ahn, et al, 2013). Disease management is a practical
and an organized approach directed to a health care delivery
that incorporates all persons with chronic illness, includes
patient self-management, measures results, supports the
provider-patient relationship and plan of care, and evaluates
health status regularly. It also enhances the patient care through
disease prevention and active meditations by evidence-based
procedures and strives to improve the general health and quality
of life while lowering the cost of care.
Disease management programs have been established, and they
contain many components which make the programs effective.
The components include; identification processes of the
population, evidence-based practice guidelines, collaborative
practice involvement which involve the physicians,
psychologists, nurses. Also dieticians and pharmacists,
identification of risks and corresponding of interventions to the
need, educating patient of self-management, measurement, and
evaluation of the processes and results, and trailing and
observing the system. The aim of disease management is to
encourage the patients to use medications correctly, to
comprehend and see the symptoms more carefully and by all
possible means change the behavior (Nolte & Osborne, 2013).
Managed care system is an intervention that is well integrated
with the disease management. Managed care organizations are

3. in a position to carry out disease management for they have
been designed to care that is inclusive and coordinated. They
concentrate on health improvement of all patients, utilization of
resources efficiently, and they are answerable to the patients,
purchase, and regulators who check into the quality of their
medical services. The managed care participate in primary
health care services such as; nursing home services, ambulatory
care, home health care, and patient and healthcare professional
education (Duncan, 2014). This involvement offers a greater
continuity of patient care especially in the management of the
diseases thus ensuring that better health results are achieved.
The managed care working through the disease management
programs have been successful at improving self-care practices
and reduction of use of various medical services such as
emergency room visits and hospital admissions. This has led to
a decrease in health care expenditures for the patients’ populace
with chronic diseases.
References.
Ahn, S., Basu, R., Smith, M. L., Jiang, L., Lorig, K., Whitelaw,
N., & Ory, M. G. (2013). The impact of chronic disease self-
management programs: healthcare savings through a
community-based intervention. BMC Public Health, 13(1),
1141.
Duncan, I. G. (2014). Managing and evaluating healthcare
intervention programs.
Nolte, S., & Osborne, R. H. (2013). A systematic review of
outcomes of chronic disease self-management
interventions. Quality of Life Research, 22(7), 1805-1816.