 ICSI news features and member highlights.
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DIAMOND
Depression Improvement Across Minnesota: Offering a New Direction
 DIAMOND is one of the nation’s most promising efforts to improve health care for people with depression because it changes the way care is delivered and how it is paid for. Through ICSI, medical groups, health plans, employers and patients collaborated to develop a better, evidenced-based model for managing depression.
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DIAMOND Frequently Asked Questions
This document describes DIAMOND, how care is delivered, patient eligibility, and ICSI’s role in the initiative.
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DIAMOND White Paper
This document addresses why depression care has been deficient to date and how DIAMOND provides an evidence-based model to generate better patient results.
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Clinics Involved with DIAMOND
Medical groups and their clinics currently offering or planning to offer DIAMOND.
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Lower Health Care Costs
A 2008 study in the American Journal of Managed Care shows the potential health care cost savings from programs like DIAMOND.
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Depression Care Tool Kit
This kit is for non-DIAMOND groups and is comprised of a set of tools, scripts, and other supporting documents to assist organizations in the coordination and management of depression care.
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DIAMOND TV Coverage
ICSI's DIAMOND program, which changes how primary care for depression is delivered and paid for, is spotlighted in this FOX TV newscast.
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DIAMOND Bibliography
Annotated bibliography describing the evidence around the collaborative care model for depression.
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Star Tribune DIAMOND Article
Attached is a story on ICSI's ground-breaking DIAMOND program from the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper.
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NIMH Grant to HealthPartners
The National Institute of Mental Health has provided HealthPartners Research Foundation with a $3 million, five-year grant to evaluate DIAMOND.
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