A Research Blueprint serves as an organizing plan to promote and disseminate research that supports understanding of what case management is, how to do it well, what outcomes it produces and the value of case management in healthcare. A task force with representatives from CCMA, University of Arizona, CCMC Foundation and Michigan State University have met to begin, and a draft is in production.

Over the past year,

• The Task Force has assembled a Research Blueprint
• The Task Force has directed the creation of a CM Outcomes Webpage accessed through the CMLC website.
• CMLC Members are urged to email any publicly available CM research to Jeanne.Boling@cmsa.org for posting on the site.
• URAC and CMSA have jointly applied for a grant from AHRQ to further the work outlined within the Blueprint. CMLC is named in the grant and should the grant be approved, CMLC members would be sought for various tasks within the grant.

		Current Blueprint
		Identification and Development of an Integrated Case Management Curriculum