US Firm Addresses Lack of DM Evaluation Standards
BREAKING NEWS: US Firm Addresses Lack of DM Evaluation Standards.
The “Great Debate” over how/if DM adds value/produces savings as a medical management strategy may finally have a solution ... but it is not the single method many of us methodological novices had hoped for.
A national accreditation program to examine the methods behind the claims of monetary savings and clinical improvements being made by health and cost management programs is being launched by the Population Health Impact Institute (PHII), a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization founded by epidemiologist Thomas Wilson, PhD.
PHII has taken on reality-- there are, in fact, multiple methods being used, and there are nuances upon nuances even in the "same" method. PHII's innovative new accreditation program has taken a new direction concerning DM program assessment in that their new accreditation standards are based upon comprehensive scientific evaluation principles. The PHII new standards will finally enable employers, and others, to make more valid program-to-program comparison because minimum standards of "transparency" and "validity" have being engineered into the PHII accreditation program.
An IDMA COMMENTARY/Audio Interview with PHII will be available in next week’s e-Report to create dialogue on this decade-old problem of “standards of measurement” for the DM industry. Press Release: August 16, 2007[http://www.magnetmail.net/images/clients/IDMA/attach
/Populati.doc].
Contact:
Thomas Wilson, PhD
513-349-5846
QEP@PHIinstitute.org
1 Comments:
We are so pleased to see PHII is getting progress on the evaluation standard of DM. Valurise now in China is about to launch a likely program based on a group people of over 50,000. This program aims to provide quantity evidence of health management [including DM] result to leading insurers in China. The share of this type of experience will be very important. We suggest IDMA can bring all the likely strives together.
Dr. Rico W. Tong [Wenwei Tang]
Valurise Health Solutions International
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