Health Care Management

Today the topics will follow toward some of the well known concept and their application used today’s healthcare systems.

Health Care Management focuses on delivery of care as an organizing manner rather than the disease.

The Disease Management Association defines Disease Management as "a system of coordinated health care interventions and communications for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant." The term disease management emphase a single disease process over care needs of individual patients who often have significant co-morbidities. However, while Disease Management initially tended to focus on only one condition at a time, in most circumstances now a spectrum of common chronic conditions can be addressed concurrently to better align with the multiple and complex needs of larger patient populations.

Disease Management organizations have introduced in the last several years focused exclusively on providing supported care, Disease Management services for the chronically ill patients. Apart from hospital Care and in-house patients care disease management care delivered by a health plan and by a managed care organization.

Population care is often used to capture a broad view of the entire spectrum of care needs and interventions for populations of patients, seeking differentiation from a central disease focus. A population encompasses the most impaired and ill through to those in the earliest stages or even just at risk for a condition. Implied in optimal population care across this range of need is the ability to stratify the members of a population for their severity of illness and needs and use this information about risk in planning and delivering care. Care management and disease management programs as commonly practiced in 2005 generally address a wide scope of population needs including risk assessment and allocation of appropriate interventions across multiple and often co-morbid diseases