title: Cross-organizational DM programs gaining ground.
abstract: Imagine the benefits to patients if health plans and systems created a standard set of preventive care measures, disease management protocols, and patient education materials that hold true throughout a given health care market regardless of what health plan or system a patient is enrolled in. In at least a few cases, this vision of disease management utopia is slowly becoming a reality.
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States