HealthSciences News

HealthSciences' Advisory Board Member JAMA Article:

Two-Thirds of Discharged HF Patients Not Receiving Recommended Drugs

People with heart failure are among the most frequently hospitalized patients—despite inexpensive evidence-based drugs and self-care support strategies proven to reduce hospitalization.
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US Air Force Health Services Program Selects CCP

Military health service organizations, teams and professionals have been implementing a variety of innovative wellness, disease management and care management programs for members of the armed services.
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Upcoming Motivational Interviewing in Health Care Video Release:

Evidence-Based Health Coaching: Using MI in Wellness, Disease Management, and Care Management.
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HealthSciences Events

Partners in Improvement:

Population Health Improvement (PHI) Learning Collaborative 2010

Join a unique community of professionals who meet 'virtually' to share innovations, best practices and success factors in wellness, disease management and care management. On January 8th we'll be joined by Tina Ross- Knapp, of Capital BlueCross; on February 5th, by patient activation expert, Dr. Judith Hibbard.
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2010 State & Regional CCP Events

HealthSciences has joined purchasers, states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont), associations, and organizations in the US and abroad to deliver regional CCP and chronic care improvement events. The next state regional event is planned for Montana in February.

Need help planning or hosting an event in your area? Please contact us.

CCP Onsite Team & Organization Events

2010 CCP onsite learning events are being scheduled for teams of 25+. Contact us with questions or for session scheduling. Individuals and smaller teams may also complete the entire CCP program online. Learn more >

		Welcome to HealthSciences Institute eNews HealthSciences Institute is implementing the mandate of the Institute of Medicine to prepare health care organizations, interdisciplinary teams and professionals to deliver evidence-based chronic care, self-care support and health coaching solutions. Together, we can achieve an outcome of engaging and activating patients in personal health management and lifestyle change. The Chronic Care Professional (CCP) certification program is the only nationally recognized, validated training and certification program for clinicians who serve people at risk of, or affected by, chronic conditions. Learn more.

News Articles

Nurses: The Key, Unsung Players in Health Care Reform

In the health care reform debate, relatively little attention has been devoted to the capacity and readiness of the nurse workforce. Yet it is estimated that by 2020-2025 there will be a shortage of between 500,000 and 1 million nurses. Additionally, both the Institute of Medicine and the World Health Organization have called for the redesign of nurse training and the development of critical nurse competencies to support better chronic care, self-care and lifestyle change.
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Seven Steps for Developing High-Performance Wellness, Disease Management & Care Management Teams

Purchasers expect new value from health plans, vendors and provider organizations. In response, population health improvement program leaders are building high-performance teams to better engage and activate members, as well as deliver superior clinical outcomes and offset costs. Sustainable health care spending depends on reducing the demand for avoidable, costly health care services. Given that behavior is the biggest driver of disease risk and avoidable health care spending, behavior change must be a core competency of health care programs and organizations. And better program performance requires the use of validated, evidence-based wellness, disease management and care management approaches by professionals. These approaches should be backed by the workforce development and performance improvement strategies already widely used in other industries. Today, population health improvement programs face more competition from organizations that not only attract and develop the right talent, but measure, manage and drive continuous performance improvement. This will be as true for medical homes, chronic care collaboratives, health plan programs or specialty population health improvement programs.
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Success Factors for Evidence-Based Care Management of Patients with Severe or Multiple Chronic Conditions

Private and public health care purchasers are under extra pressure to stem health care costs for the patients who account for the most health care expenses: Those with severe or multiple chronic conditions. In the US, approximately 10% of patients account for 70% of total health care expenses—with many of these costs related to avoidable hospitalization. Care management of these patients is a challenge because they are frequently seeing multiple health care providers, taking numerous medications and often coping with overwhelming self-care demands. A recent article by Thomas Bodenheimer, MD and Rachel Berry-Millet in the New England Journal of Medicine summarizes the evidence on care management approaches. The article details success factors for using care management to improve quality and cost outcomes for patients with multiple or complex conditions. These authors define care management as “a set of activities designed to assist patients and their support systems in managing medical conditions and related psychosocial problems more effectively, with the aims of improving patients’ functional health status, enhancing the coordination of care, eliminating duplication of services, and reducing the need for expensive medical services.”
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Upcoming National Conferences

Institute for Health Care Improvement
21st Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
December 6-9, 2009
Orlando, FL

The National Forum is the premier health care conference where health care leaders come together to learn about cutting-edge improvement strategies, and share best practices and innovative ideas. This conference draws nearly 6,000 health care professionals from around the world and thousands more via satellite broadcast. Learn more or register for this event

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