Our dedicated disease management program provides outbound telephone and email coaching from registered nurses and allied health professionals to empower individuals to successfully manage their own health by:
- Identifying new or worsening symptoms
- Improving medication adherence
- Supporting post hospital discharge plans
- Reinforcing clinician action plans
- Helping patients identify and reduce risky, unhealthy behaviour
- Educating and increasing knowledge of health conditions
- Promotion best practice health checks/screening e.g. Annual flu shots
- Encouraging patients to keep their medical appointments
- Arranging extra support from allied health professionals
- Linking patients with local community resources/support groups
Our professional health teams are fully-trained in clinical, psychosocial, technological and operational competencies. These skills are used in the support of chronic diseases such as:
- Heart disease
- diabetes
- asthma and
- osteoporosis
Patients managing their diseases with the help of Healthways are also encouraged to use the
Well-Being Connect™ website to set, track and be supported in the pursuit of their health goals.
- Asthma
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Back Pain
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Crohns Disease
- Depression
- Diabetes – type 1
- Diabetes – type 2
- Diabetes unspecified
- Heart Failure
- Hepatitis C
- Hypertension
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Irritable Bowel Disease
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Oncology
- Liver
- Pancreas
- Digestive system
- Bronchus or Lungs
- Skin
- Breast
- Ovary
- Prostate
- Kidney
- Bladder
- Brain
- Hodgkin’s disease
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Leukaemia
- Osteoarthritis (osteoarthritis)
- Osteoporosis
- Renal Disease
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sleep Apnoea
- Urinary Incontinence