In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on preventative care from all levelsfederal, local, state, private insurance, and managed care. By having patients receive regular checkups from their healthcare providers, the patients are more likely to remain healthy because their healthcare providers have more opportunities to detect, treat, and/or prevent potential healthcare concerns. From a managed care perspective, early detection and potential prevention is more cost-effective than if concerns went unnoticed and could potentially evolve into costly conditions.

For your initial discussion board posting, conduct research that helps you to explain how early detection and prevention of a specific illness or disease, such as diabetes, can help both the patient and the managed care organization. Think about what it would mean for someone to find out that they are pre-diabetic, as opposed to finding out later when the condition has had time to manifest. Discuss the impact it could have on both patient and managed care organizations if not detected early.

Respond to 2 or more of your colleagues postings by:

• Building on something said by your peers
• Explaining how and why you see things differently
• Asking a probing or clarifying question
• Validating an idea with your own experience