Health Management

Disease State Management and Health Improvement Programs

HDL, Inc. understands that every patient is unique and customized therapy is often necessary. To address this need, we offer sophisticated and technically sound insights from our laboratory testing combined with a personalized approach to disease state management.

We provide support tools for practitioners/physicians to make personalized plan of care for their patients. Our system of coordinated health care interventions and communications with health care providers and their patients with targeted chronic disease produces efficient self-care efforts towards the goal of health. HDL, Inc. emphasizes prevention of exacerbations and complications utilizing evidence based practice guidelines and patient empowerment strategies. We constantly evaluate clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes on an ongoing basis with the goal of improving overall health.

At no additional charge, you will also receive guidelines for prescribing medications plus diet and exercise recommendations. These guidelines allow you to provide a personalized treatment plan targeted to each patient's individual risk for cardiovascular disease, as determined by his/her lab results.

Our Available Services:

• Administration of a complete health risk assessment
• Blood and laboratory analyses
• Chronic disease management programs consistent with nationally accepted protocols for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, stress, obesity, and smoking cessation
• Advisory services including the interpretation of test results provided and the incorporation of those findings in the patient’s health management plan;
• Health education tailored to the specific risks of each patient to ensure health literacy in those areas;
• HIPAA compliant population-based reporting to enable physicians to monitor the progress of their patients; and
• A web-based personal health record and patient portal for use by patients and the health providers with whom they elect to share their information.

Supporting the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Model

Healthcare reform includes a renewed emphasis on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model, where disease management and prevention and wellness are core concepts. Advanced testing and customized disease management tools offered by Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc. (Inc.) -- including personal health plans, customized dietary and exercise plans, and personal health coaching -- supports the PCMH model of pro-active healthcare in a physician’s practice.

PCMH’s approach incorporates the whole person and self-care, where patients with chronic health conditions, like cardiovascular disease, are proactively supported in making lifestyle changes for prevention and wellness rather than being treated for symptoms of disease.

The PCMH model emphasizes the effective management of high risk and chronic disease. HDL, Inc. provides advanced testing and personal health coaching services that are critical to successful implementation of health promotion and prevention initiatives within a physician’s practice to enable the PCMH approach for patient care.