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Monday June 27, 2005
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7:15 am
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8:15 am
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| Confronting Patient Non-Adherence to Improve Compliance with Respiratory Therapy |
- Describe the prevalence and consequences of patient non-adherence with respiratory therapies
- Identify modifiable patient, provider and system-level factors which contribute to non-adherence with respiratory therapy, as well as potential interventions to improve adherence
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| Treating and Managing the Cost of Asthma with Disease Management |
- Use case management and group education to identify the components of a successful asthma management program
- Discuss how to address employers’ concerns for dealing with asthma in the workplace
- Demonstrate program effectiveness and cost savings using a multiple-model approach.
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10:00 am
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11:30 am
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11:30 am
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Steven Delaronde
MPH, MSW
Healthcare Analyst
Connecticare & Affiliates
Assistant Professor
Statistics & Epidemiology
University of Connecticut
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| Steve Delaronde, MPH, MSW, has been a health care analyst with ConnectiCare since 2000. He is responsible for research methodology development, outcomes analysis, and the evaluation of ConnectiCare’s disease management programs. ConnectiCare serves approximately 250,000 members in Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and New York, offering disease management programs in asthma, coronary artery disease, diabetes, heart failure, and high-risk pregnancy. Mr. Delaronde also serves as the coordinator of ConnectiCare’s diabetes disease management program. He has presented at managed care and disease management conferences nationally and has published articles on ConnectiCare’s asthma and heart failure programs. He holds a Master of Public Health and Master of Social Work from the University of Connecticut, where he is also an assistant professor of statistics and epidemiology. |
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Dori Peruccio
RN, BSN, MPH
Asthma Case Manager
Connecticare & Affiliates
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| Dori Peruccio, RN, BSH, MPH, has been a registered nurse case manager with ConnectiCare since 2001. She is the case manager for BREATHE, which is ConnectiCare’s asthma management program. BREATHE has multidisciplinary representation, incorporating member identification, clinical practice guideline development and distribution, physician and member interventions, and financial, clinical and quality of life measurements. The BREATHE program has been featured in the Journal of Asthma, Disease Management Advisor, and Case Management Advisor and was the winner of the 2002 AAHP National Exemplary Practice Award. Ms. Peruccio holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Connecticut and a Master of Public Health degree from Southern Connecticut State University. |
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Cynthia Rand
MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
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| Cynthia Rand, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, has focused on behavioral variables associated with the prevention and treatment of chronic lung diseases. Dr. Rand’s research interests include asthma disparities in low-income, inner-city, minority patients, and the psychosocial factors associates with adherence to therapy. Dr. Rand is the past chair of the Behavioral Sciences Assembly of the American Thoracic Society, and a former member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Task Force on the Contributions of Behavioral Science to the Prevention of Heart, Lung and Blood Disease and the NHLBI Clinical Trials Review Group. She is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Adherence Research, a core facility that utilizes state-of-theart measurement technology for the assessment of patient adherence with asthma therapy. |
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