Population Health
The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care represents a transformative change in healthcare delivery, focusing on patient outcomes rather than the volume of services provided. By adopting a population health approach, healthcare providers aim to improve the health of entire communities through preventive care, coordinated services, and data-driven strategies.
This model incentivizes providers to deliver high-quality care that enhances patient satisfaction, reduces costs, and ultimately leads to better health outcomes for all. To know more, read our Population Health special issue.
The Transformative Impact of Point-of-Care Diagnostics
By Paul Aitken MD MPH, Chief of Population Health & Associate Dean for Clinical Integration, Stony Brook Medicine Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics are transforming healthcare delivery by offering quick, on-site testing and immediate results. Their capabilities are becoming integral in various ...
What can Artificial Intelligence (AI) do for Population Health?
By James Trumble, VP of Clinical Integration, TidalHealth Artificial intelligence (AI) and population health are relative newcomers as tools and approaches to change healthcare. AI is the next large disruption, already creating novel approaches to medications and medical diagnoses. The ...
How to Build a Successful Population Health Strategy with Technology?
By Kourtney Matlock, Corporate VP of Population Health, Baptist Health Role of emerging technologies in achieving population health Access for care management teams to LTCF (Long Term Care Facility) EMRs through patient portals or other programs are important for patient ...
Health Technology Support for Population Health and Data Integration
By Dr. Patrick Dunn, Program Director, American Heart Association Center for Health Technology and Innovation Population health is a key part of the American Heart Association’s mission of being a relentless force for a world of longer and healthier lives ...
Evolution of the Radio Doctor
By David Smith, Associate VP of Virtual Medicine, Information Services, UMass Memorial Health The traditional house call, known by generations of patients and doctors alike, is making a comeback through telemedicine. With the advent of radio in the early 20th ...
Virtual Health Experience aligned with Value-Based Care
By Aiesha Ahmed, VP, Population Health & Chief of Neurological Health - Spectrum Health The pandemic has catalyzed the care delivery innovations for the healthcare industry. As many healthcare organizations move towards value-based care, the focus has shifted to patient-centered ...
Leveraging Population Health in Post-Acute Care
By Janice Thorpe, VP of Population Health and Erin Woodford, VP of Population Health, Genesis Healthcare The post-acute sector, specifically in the skilled nursing arena, continues to quickly evolve and change, as the landscape of payment shifts from a fee-for-service ...
Addressing the Healthcare Paradigm with Population Health Emerging Technologies
By Lovina John, Program Manager, Population Health Informatics, Harpreet Gulati, Senior Director, Population Health Informatics, and Dr. Simita Mishra, Enterprise Leader, Population Health Informatics, Northwell Health It is predicted that 40% of the fortune 500 companies will no longer exist ...
The Future of Population Health in a Digital World
By Saad Chaudhry, CIO, Luminis Health The recent pandemic years have changed many aspects of healthcare, from how it is delivered to how it is paid for and subsidized. With limitations on in-person interaction and extreme staffing shortages, many aspects ...
Buxton-Data Analytics that Help Healthcare Organizations Reach New Potential
Colossal data volume is one of the salient aspects of population management. If unlocked, healthcare and public sector organizations can benefit a great deal from the insights and build useful solutions across the healthcare value chain. Buxton, a consumer intelligence ...
Healthcare innovations augmented by a pandemic
By Dr. Simita Mishra, AVP/Population Health Informatics Leader and Raman Vig, Community Remote Care Program Manager, Northwell Health The mission of the Northwell Population Health Informatics team is to improve population health and community outcomes through informatics and underlying technology. The ...
Essentia’s Population Health Strategy for its community
By Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer, Essentia Health Essentia Health’s Population Health Strategy begins with our Mission of “We are called to make a Health Difference in People’s Lives”. This lays the groundwork for advancing three fundamental pillars in ...
Strategy aligned with risk & financial modeling to balance between FFS (Fee-For-Service) and VBC (Value-Based Care) agreements
By Jennifer a Houlihan, VP Value-Based Care & Population Health, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health systems are pacing their investments and transition to value-based care as the need to balance the potential rewards from shared savings and risk contracts ...
Telehealth: Leading path towards true patient-centric care
By Pavan Attur, CIO, Hudson Regional Hospital COVID-19 has a significant impact on all industries and mainly healthcare. Many lives were lost and hospitals and healthcare workers had to deal with unprecedented situation dealing with the new virus. This pandemic ...
Does your approach to data and analytics undermine Diversity, Inclusion and Equity?
By Heidi Baskfield, VP Population Health & Advocacy, Ellen Sublett, Quality Improvement Specialist, Sana Yousuf, Software Engineer, Children’s Hospital Colorado Developing an effective work that accomplishes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within an organization, requires deliberate and consistent intention to ...
How accessible are you?
By Isaiah Nathaniel, CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health We all know our healthcare system is fragmented. This isn’t something new or revolutionary. It is almost explicitly accepted as a course of business in healthcare. We collectively address it with a ...
Advancing Pediatric Population Health, Powered by Technology
By Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS, SVP & Chief Population Health Officer, Nemours Children’s Health System America’s children are the key to whether or not we will have healthier families and healthier communities in our future. Their care, opportunities, ...
Bold Goals 2030 – Population Health for a community in need!
By Douglas A. Spotts, Chief Health Officer, Meritus Health Meritus Health, a 275-bed independent hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland with a 100-year history of serving Hagerstown and rural Washington County, embarked on a Bold Goal 2030 strategic planning exercise in January ...
The Face of Population Health
By Charleeda Redman, VP Strategy Integration, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia A definition proposed by David Kindig and Greg Stoddart in 2003 suggests population health is: “The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within ...
Using values-based communications to improve patient response
By Tyler Wilson, VP of Population Health and Clinical Quality, Austin Regional Clinic Austin Regional Clinic, in conjunction with health consulting firm MDH Consulting, has been working to improve communications with patients on specific messages, with the end goal of ...
COVID-19: Destruction and Innovation in Population Health
By Jennifer Dunphy, DrPH, MBA, MPH, Chief Population Health Officer & SVP-Operations, Regal Medical Group, Inc. & Lakeside Community Healthcare The world has seen widespread upheaval in the new environment of COVID-19, healthcare-at-large, and specifically, the domain of population health ...
Remote Patient Monitoring in the age of COVID-19
By Alka Kohli, MD, MBA, EVP & Chief Population Health and Clinical Officer, Inspira Health While the health care industry has always championed and driven innovation, the COVID-19 pandemic has advanced and accelerated the pace at which many technologies have ...
Population Health Transformation: Leveraging Digital and Information Technology
By Ron Parton, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Christus Health Plans Integrated health care systems are adopting digital and information technology, along with advanced analytics, as key ingredients in their transformation to population health. This translates to improved quality and ...
Arcadia Ensuring Financial Success in Value-Based Healthcare
Population Health Management (PHM) has been an important component of healthcare delivery for over a decade, but a recent shift toward value-based care has accelerated its adoption. A well-developed PHM program allows clinicians to identify care gaps and improve patient ...
INCREASING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, TELEMEDICINE DESTINED FOR GREATNESS
By Mitchell Fong, Director of Telehealth, Renown Health Since embarking on my graduate research study on Telehealth in 2011, I have dedicated my career to expanding telehealth services in both urban and rural areas of Nevada and California. This has ...
Op-Ed – Technology opportunities to scale value-based care
By Deepak Sadagopan, SVP Value-Based Care & Population Health Informatics, Providence St. Joseph Health One of the rare areas that has received bipartisan support from a federal policy perspective is the shift in healthcare payment models from Fee For Service ...
The Unmet Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Population Health
By Benson Hsu, VP, Population Health, Sanford Health Population health is one of the last frontiers in medicine. One can argue that genomics and other therapeutics advances are still ahead of us, but the reality is that all medical advances ...
Health IT and the Human Interface
By David K. Vawdrey, PhD, Chief Data Informatics Officer, Geisinger There is strong evidence that greater patient engagement leads to better health outcomes. But how do we make individuals become more engaged in their health and healthcare? Over the past ...
Universal Internet Access is a Key Factor in True Population Health
By Molly Menton, Director, Clinical Delivery, Evolent Health When everyone does better, everyone does better. There are so many polarizing views of the concept of “free” in the United States today, it becomes nearly impossible to unpack in one article. What ...
The evolving role of physician leadership in healthcare digital transformation: choosing the right technology partners for Population Health Management
By Vincenzo Scivittaro, MD, MS-MIS, Director, Health Informatics and Population Health Solutions, IBM Watson Health The healthcare industry is going through an incredibly massive digital transformation, and this change comes with new responsibilities for the clinical leaders of healthcare organizations ...