title: Telecommunications and disease management in the home environment: new strategies to improve outcomes.
abstract: This article provides an overview of the issues and effects of principle-centered health care within organized systems of care; portrays a comprehensive disease management framework for home health care; and offers virtual health management, telecommunications, and mobile computing strategies to enable health management enterprises to achieve health and outcomes maximization accountability demands in managed care.
authors.affiliation: HealthWise Foundation, Inc., Denver, CO, USA.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface