Chronic Disease Management Toolkit - Program Benefits

Benefits of the CDM Toolkit

For Patients

For Physicians

• Improves health and lifestyle
• Helps patients self-manage their care
• Increases patient satisfaction
• Increases likelihood that patients who need follow-up will get it
• Prevents complications and provides early treatment because of proactive (not reactive) care

• Facilitates management of chronic disease patients in a more proactive way, leading to fewer patient visits for acute or crisis conditions
• Provides feedback on patient outcomes by measuring the impact of changes
• Enables physicians to easily monitor how well the practice is meeting Clinical guidelines 
• Makes managing patient registries easier
• Provides summary data at a glance and reduces charting time
• Supports individual care planning and reminders
• Enables physicians to securely share patient data with other members of a patient's care team, even when not co-located
• Enables physicians to identify high risk patients