This $2.86-million, 30-month initiative will help providers implement proven approaches to support patients managing chronic conditions and partner with self-care resources outside the medical system.

This annual contest awards cash and other prizes to the individuals and companies with the best new designs for creative tools that will improve life with for those with diabetes.

Where do you go for health information? A national survey finds the Internet has joined doctors and family as the top three ways people handle their health care questions, but that adults with chronic diseases are disproportionately offline.

This report describes the range of technologies that can enable remote health monitoring and examines the prospects for these applications in the current health care context.

This project explored whether non-diabetic high school students could serve as self-management coaches for diabetic family members after learning about the disease and developing communication and coaching skills in a structured school program.

This communication toolkit will help employers, labor unions, and others communicate about the meaning and importance of evidence-based medical care. The toolkit supports efforts to enlist employees as informed partners in managing their health.

Self-management support for patients with chronic illness is a routine function of clinical care in many primary care organizations. This report describes a number of models that have been successful in involving these patients in a well-planned and efficient way.

This publication focuses on the development of online and mobile applications that can help individuals remotely manage their chronic conditions.

A number of leaders in patient self-management support have created training materials for clinicians and other providers. Tom Bodenheimer of UCSF’s Center for Excellence in Primary Care identified some effective materials.

This snapshot provides highlights from a survey of California adults with chronic conditions.

Patients with chronic illness can benefit when their families support them in managing their care. This report provides information and resources for enhancing family involvement.

Self-management support plays a key role in chronic disease management. This study correlated patient experience of provider self-management support with process and clinical outcome measures.

This 14-minute video discusses both how to develop an action plan to support healthy behavior change and how to ensure patients are taking their medications appropriately. Patients are coached on the skills they need to become active participants in their own care.

This snapshot looks at consumer use of the Internet as a source of health and ratings information. Overall, although many look for information, few take action based on what they have seen.

This iHealth Report takes a close look at social media, who uses it and why, what its impact is on the health of consumers, and how health care organizations can take advantage of its uses to manage the care of their populations.