2008 Special Committee on Performance-Based Disease Management Programs for Large Populations

The Special Committee is directed to: (1) examine the role of disease management programs in assisting to address the state’s health care needs; (2) review best practice disease management programs from around the nation; (3) review current practices of the State of Wisconsin’s programs; (4) review state-of-the-art procedures for measuring performance of disease management programs; (5) make recommendations on ways to more effectively measure disease management results; and (6) focus on group settings for children, primarily schools, preschool, and day care settings and the laws, rules, and policies related to nutrition and physical activities in those settings especially in regard to childhood obesity.