What is the Imperative for Health Care Systems Change?

Health care systems around the world are struggling to close serious quality, cost and service gaps. Effective, evidence-based, care is underutilized, widespread variation in spending is driving escalating health care spending, and process improvement and behavior change approaches are vastly underutilized—despite the availability of demonstrated and promising solutions from inside and outside of health care. Individuals with chronic conditions are at particularly high risk of not receiving proactive, effective, and coordinated care.

What Will it Take to Improve Health Care?

Experts agree that past incremental solutions to close health care and chronic care gaps have not been effective. To reduce the significant variation in care quality, safety, and costs, today's organizations and leaders must build new capabilities and competencies in population-based, proactive health care. Unfortunately, there are few integrated and organized development programs, tools and resources for disease managers and case managers serving healthy and chronically ill individuals in today's health care environment.

What is Populuation-Based Health/Disease Management?

Health and chronic disease management (DM) programs target consumers at risk of declining health or costly medical services through the application of evidence-based care, self-care support, multidisciplinary care coordination, and community collaboration. These services can be delivered directly by providers, health plans, or employer-purchasers or by specialized disease management organizations (DMOs). Increasingly, these population-based approaches are being adapted for delivery to healthy populations.

How is HealthSciences Institute Leading Improvement?

HealthSciences Institute was founded in 2003 to prepare health care organizations and professionals to deliver improved value to health care consumers, systems and purchasers in the new health care environment. In 2004, HealthSciences Institute--in partnership with professionals, associations and organizations--developed the first disease and health management certification program.  

The Chronic Care Professional (CCP) Certification program has subsequently been selected by leading health systems, health plans, and disease management organizations in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.

In 2005 HealthSciences partnered with the Case Management Society of America to deliver the CCP program to US case managers. In 2007, HealthSciences entered a strategic partnership with DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance. DMAA selected the CCP certiifcation as the nationally recognized credential for disease management, and other population health improvement professionals.

HealthSciences Institute has also developed a number of tools and resources to drive evidence-based, consumer-centered health care. These tools have been used by leading health plans and health systems to reach over 100,000 patients and physician practices. Learn more about HealthSciences Institute and meet our Advisory Board.

	Chronic Care Professional (CCP) Certification Now in its third edition, the CCP Certification has been the cornerstone of state and organization-wide chronic care improvement initiatives in the U.S. and Canada. It's the essential credential for today's disease management and health care professionals. The eLearning version of this popular program is available via Toronto's Centennial College. Learn More > Download the CCP Certification Brochure (PDF)

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