The heat and headaches over retooling patient care create hard labor
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Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound endocrinologist Ken Gross is making an effort to change patient care service for the cooperative's 13,000 diabetic patients. Group Health is also instituting disease management principles for pregnancy, heart care, depression, breast care and smoking cessation. Disease management involves the formation of models for care services based on what has been proven effective through research and physician practices.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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Working smarter, not harder
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Pilot cooperative care clinics are providing chronic care patients with medical information, routine care and a sense of connection. The clinics, initiated by doctors at Kaiser Foundation in Colorado, focus on health maintenance rather than standard diagnosing and curing. The HMO clinics report that cooperative care patients require 39% fewer emergency department and 24% few hospital admission per year compared to patients receiving traditional care.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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Doctors who just say no; in a risky move, physicians groups on both coasts are thumbing their noses at managed care
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The Assn of Independent Physicians is a 100-member group of physicians founded in 1998 in Manhattan, New York, NY, to attract patients that are displeased with the managed care system. These doctors have patients that have Medicare coverage, have flexible managed care plans and have no insurance. These physicians want to restore marketplace forces.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1998
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