part 1

read Chapters 8 and 16 (p 338) of the course text. For your initial post, address the following

• Define disease management (DM) programs.
• Describe the impacts of DM programs on healthcare quality and cost.
• Identify challenges in DM programs.
• Examine a successful DM program from real life and address (a) What is its accreditation status? (b) Why is this program successful? and (c) Can it be replicated in other settings?

Part 2

read Chapter 13 of the course text. For this part address the following steps:

• Step 1. Research a prevention program from a health plan. (You may use your own health insurance plan for your response.)
• Step 2. Criticize the selected health plan prevention program using TABLE 13-1 Components of a Strong Health Plan Prevention Program as the guideline.
• Step 3. Propose two recommendations for improving the weaknesses of the selected program.