In the US, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. More than 1.2 million individuals are diagnosed with cancer each year while it is estimated that 8.2 million Americans, alive today, have a history of cancer. Cancer diagnosis and treatment...

The Internet's information capabilities and benefits to commerce have been proven but these results have an uncertain relationship to healthcare, managed care and disease management. The highly fragmented structure of the US healthcare industry presents strategic and operational issues, which...

Disease management is a strategy for patient care across the entire healthcare delivery system and throughout the life-cycle of a disease. Disease management is a new paradigm for managed care. It focuses on an alignment of interests between patient, payor and provider. But what is a carve-out,...

Disease Management (DM) organizations are facing incredible challenges from outside and inside the industry. A focus on costs can help both managed care organizations and self-insured employers to be more open to the potential of DM in the US. The steep increase in spending for covered medical...