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Health Coaching Resource Expands Comprehensive Disease Management Dimensions Series

Manasquan, N.J., USA, January 19, 2007– Early models in managed care focused on the tail end of that continuum — benefit reimbursement, diagnosis and treatment. Today, healthcare’s focus has shifted upstream to health behavior, symptoms and disease. This new perspective is reflected in the latest addition to the Disease Management Dimensions series created by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN). The newest title in the 13-volume Dimensions series — Narrowing the Health Perception Gap: Coaching to Change Behavior and Raise Self-Efficacy — provides a roadmap for motivating patients to adopt healthy lifestyles. To learn more about Disease Management Dimensions, please visit the HIN site.

In the latest addition to the series, Dr. Rick Botelho, professor of family medicine at URMC Family Medicine Center, Dr. Richard Citrin, vice president of integrated care management at Corphealth Inc., and Michael Thompson, principal with PricewaterhouseCoopers, delve into the field of behavior modification and suggest tactics health coaches and disease management specialists can employ to motivate clients and patients to adopt healthy lifestyles.

The 13-volume Disease Management Dimensions series chronicles initiatives and early adopters in disease management (DM) and lifestyle management (LM) across a broad spectrum of conditions. Disease Management Dimensions features winning efforts in DM for obesity and depression as well as programs designed to motivate and support pre- and post-partum, Medicare and Medicaid populations. Addressing multiple concerns of the DM industry, this 500-page series includes the following special reports:

• Blueprint for Success: Constructing a Winning Healthcare Toolkit Strategy
• Childhood Obesity: Truths, Trends & Program Design
• Depression Disease Management: Healthcare's New Frontier
• Disease Management & Obesity: Healthcare Impacts and Initiatives
• Health Coaches: Scoring Big Gains in Disease Management ROI
• Healthcare Toolkits: Empowering Consumers Through Education
• Maternity Disease Management: Raising Expectations and Improving Outcomes
• The Medicaid Population: Making a Difference with Disease Management
• Medicare Disease Management: Tactics to Improve Health, Education and Independence in an Aging Population
• Modifying Patients' Behaviors to Optimize Disease Management Outcomes
• Motivating Resistant Patients: Influencing Behaviors to Improve Outcomes
• Narrowing the Health Perception Gap: Coaching to Change Behavior and Raise Self-Efficacy
• Training Health Coaches: Fielding a Team of Behavior Change Agents

Compiling expertise from nearly three dozen DM and LM thought leaders and innovators, Disease Management Dimensions is a compendium of resources emphasizing the roles of communication, consumer empowerment and behavior modification in fostering health improvement and fiscal fitness.

The series is available in print in a convenient binder format or as an Adobe® PDF® on CD-ROM with keyword searching capabilities. The series offers readers the opportunity to review the latest DM and LM initiatives in one place, as well as a cost-effective alternative to purchasing each title separately. For more information and a description of each title in the series, please visit the HIN site.

About the Healthcare Intelligence Network – HIN is the premier advisory service for executives seeking high-quality strategic information on the business of healthcare. For more information, contact the Healthcare Intelligence Network, PO Box 1442, Wall Township, NJ 07719-1442, (888) 446-3530, fax (732) 292-3073, e-mail info@hin.com, or visit http://www.hin.com.

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