TAMPA, Fla., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Integrated, Inc., the country's leading provider of Advanced Care Management services, will be presenting preliminary outcomes from its Depression Disease Management Program at the Integrated Health Care Leadership Summit, being held in Washington, DC. The Summit focuses on Co-Morbid Depression and Chronic Illness, and is sponsored by the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA). The presentation, "Depression Disease Management: Preliminary Clinical Outcomes Metrics and Cost Savings in a Commercial Population," is scheduled for Tuesday, June 8th, at 11 a.m. The presentation will be given by Sam Toney, MD, President and Chief Medical Officer of Health Integrated, Paula Sauer, RN, VP of Care Management at Medical Mutual of Ohio, and Diane Steffick, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Department of Psychiatry.
"We are pleased that the Summit will be highlighting this very critical issue and are enthusiastic about presenting these results," said Dr. Toney. "This is a meaningful, matched control group study of the impact of a comprehensive Depression Disease Management program on a significant commercial population. Health Integrated's Depression Disease Management is a significantly more robust program than other commonly offered DM programs currently available in the market. For a program that actually and positively manages the impact of depression, you must utilize multiple sources of case identification - including predictive modeling and multiple referral sources - address all medical co-morbidities, and provide evidenced-based interventions in conjunction with core clinical content," says Toney. "It achieves improved clinical outcomes along with a demonstrable return on investment (ROI)."
The results being presented include:
-- Clinical outcomes - impact of the program on depressive symptoms, risk
levels, and treatment compliance
-- Utilization outcomes - impact of the program on utilization of
behavioral and medical care services
-- Financial outcomes - the ability of the program to provide a positive
return on investment
Health Integrated, a privately held company based in Tampa, Florida, is one of the fastest growing health care companies in the nation, providing comprehensive, integrated, medical and behavioral health care support, yielding improved patient outcomes. Health Integrated's focus on the integration of behavioral and medical health care, combined with its ability to work as a partner to provide comprehensive customized care management solutions, has produced significant value to its clients. Health Integrated provides services to major organizations and is accredited by URAC for Health Utilization Management, Case Management and Disease Management. More information about Health Integrated is available at http://www.healthintegrated.com/.
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