Archive for September, 2010

Looking to the Future – DMAA Re-brands

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Pharos Innovations is a long standing and proud member of the Disease Management Association of America, which as of today, ceases to exist as the DMAA. Today, the organization has changed its name to the Care Continuum Alliance (CCA) to better align its name with its ongoing work on behalf of organizations and individuals that provide healthcare at all stages of well-being.

The organization’s decision to change its name away from one that focuses on disease management reflects our industry’s evolution toward care across the continuum of health. This is a move away from a disease focus to a more comprehensive, patient-focused approach. Read the rest of this entry →

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The Responsibility Falls to Us All

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Just a few days ago, Donald Berwick, MD, in his first major speech since taking the helm of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) two months ago, urged insurers, employers, professional groups, and communities to come together to advance healthcare reform goals. We applaud Dr. Berwick’s sentiments and agree that none of us can “do this alone.” He warned that those who are interested in preserving the status quo would not be considered “constructive contributors to our nation’s future.”

He went on to say, “All of us have to change the way we do business…CMS can’t do this alone. Government can’t do this alone. We will either build a new healthcare system for our country together…or we’re not going to build it at all.”

In an article Dr. Berwick co-authored two years ago—long before being named to head CMS—he and his colleagues said the “The Triple Aim” of health care would be simultaneously “improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care.”

That’s been our aim since founding Pharos Innovations: providing better care, with improved outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. We looked at an existing problem—high readmissions for heart failure—and developed a disruptive solution: Tel-Assurance. Read the rest of this entry →

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