title: Web-based 'early warning' predictive modeling system enhances preventive care.
abstract: Shifting the focus of disease management from treatment to prevention. There is nothing new about the concept of health risk assessment. Most of these tools seek to identify people with chronic disease so that interventions can be employed. But a cadre of DM firms think that approach does not go far enough. See how one firm is trying to move the focus from treatment to prevention of disease in the first place.
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012984:Software; D014481:United States