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Sixty percent of physicians responding to a survey by the Pennsylvania Medical Society expressed frustration with eroding patient-doctor relationships and blame lack of time for the problem.
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Consumers drug-buying behavior may be based on how much they know about their personal health care coverage, a Harris Interactive survey reveals.
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A patient whose chronic illness you are managing is not likely to tell you that he or she is depressed.
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A catastrophic case that involves a lot of coordination of resources, a lot of care planning, and a large allocation of financial resources that may or may not cause the patient to reach his or her maximum lifetime benefit should be a flag to the case manager to find out who may be sharing the risk.
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Musculoskeletal conditions, including arthritis, low-back pain, repetitive motion strain, and mental health problems mostly depression have the biggest negative impact on worker productivity, according to a survey by the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM), a nonprofit research organization in Scottsdale, AZ.
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When it comes to a common disease such as diabetes, we cant manage the universe, Giavanna Ernandes, RN, MSN, APNC, asserts.
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The lack of a final HIPAA security regulation means that your organization doesnt have to provide security for your patient data, right? Wrong, according to a new handbook published by URAC. Your organization already has to protect patient data under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule, the book points out.
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The Commission on Case Manager Certification (CCMC) in Rolling Meadows, IL, is opening nominations to fill four commission seats. Commission candidates are self-nominated. The deadline for submitting nominations is March 15.
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Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield combined its previously disjointed disease management programs into an integrated condition management program that focuses on reducing the variations in effective care for five common conditions.
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To get, on their own, the information that Pittsburgh-based Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shields SMART Registry provides them, physicians would have to conduct extensive and time-consuming chart reviews.