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Since
1999, the Michigan Association of Health Plans Foundation and the Michigan Department
of Community Health have collaborated in a series of Taking On projects
in chronic disease, addressing asthma, cancer, diabetes, stroke, tobacco use and
weight. These outreach and education award-winning
initiatives have sought to develop consistent recommendations, known as Core Measures,
related to each of these chronic diseases and risk factors. The projects have developed tools and resources
for both providers and the public to facilitate implementation of the recommendations.
These resources can be ordered using the Taking
on Chronic Disease Order Form.
In
2003, the MAHP Foundation adopted a proposal to restructure its board and administrative
structure to facilitate efforts toward several objectives: Stimulating
health plans to achieve their prevention and health education goals in conjunction
with their communities; and documenting and publicizing the outcomes from those
partnerships; Linking
health plan initiatives in disease management protocols and programs, with particular
emphasis on assessing their outcomes and disseminating the findings; Creating
better alignment between medical and allied medical training programs and the
managed care approaches of the "real world."
By
the year's end, the Foundation plans to complete the process necessary to expand
the Foundation Board to include representation from academic, employer, media
and advocacy sectors, helping it to identify opportunities for Foundation projects
and partnerships.
In
2004, Foundation efforts have addressed the need to streamline and improve operations
of these six separate projects related to asthma, cancer, diabetes, tobacco, stroke
and weight, creating a single oversight committee and administrative structure
for the projects, creating a single Taking on Chronic Disease project. The Taking
on Chronic Disease project is now working in concert with the Surgeon General’s
Primary Care Initiative for a Healthy Michigan in a pilot project focused
on improving systems in primary care practice settings.
The project goal, as stated in the project work plan, is: To
improve the integration of evidence based medicine into office practice systems
by implementing targeted, provider based interventions that: lead
to prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic disease;
reduce
complications of chronic disease over time; and improve
office efficiency and cost-effectiveness of care.
These
targeted provider based interventions will concentrate on the Surgeon General's
prescription for health (nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco use) and on
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