Health Improvements with New Technological Innovations

The Disease Management Strategies (DM) described by this week’s case study highlight interesting components of both the needs of our society and the ability we have with new technologies to aid in producing more productive and effective care. Many of the programs described have found cost-effective ways to manage patient health and address the needs of our aging population. The added management has helped patients control chronic diseases and as a result has saved a substantial amount of money that would have been spent to treat the patients individually. The patient centric, individualized care has brought a much needed focus to a personal responsibility that patients themselves need to address. Using various routes of program dissemination, such as other allied health workers besides doctors and implementation of technology use helps promote healthy, preventive aims for the patients that in turn have positive effects for all stakeholders involved. Disease Management sounds like a wonderful alternative to the way medicine is currently delivered; I know some of my elderly relatives could stand to greatly benefit from it.