The American College of Physicians has long recognized the importance of primary care practices providing case management to chronically ill patients.

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Like chronically ill patients, these businesses function at less than optimal performance.

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Thus states might need to continue to be responsible for figuring out the best way to address the needs of such chronically ill patients.

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Asthmapolis, an organization that is just getting off the ground, connects we-ness to improving health for chronically ill patients by attaching a small GPS-enabled device to rescue inhalers.

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Primary care physicians need to be dissected as well, handing off routine care such as treating earaches and performing camp physicals to retail clinics and assigning the care of chronically ill patients to disease management networks.

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Colin Campbell and Caldwell Esselstyn, and how their research has improved their health and that of their once chronically ill patients through a whole foods diet based on eating produce and grains in their most natural state.

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So that as I said before, the chronically ill that account for 20 percent -- or the 20 percent of chronically ill patients that account for 80 percent of the costs, that they're getting better treatment.

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