The voyage to population health is still very much a “Tale of Two Cities,” as executives' expectations both in terms of being prepared to assume risk and actually taking on risk have failed to ...

That’s why behavioral economics can be so useful in tackling pernicious health problems. It allows us to preserve people’s ...

Population health intelligence needs to be integrated into clinical workflows to impact population health outcomes; thus, the emphasis on clinical intelligence/analytics in implementing population ...

The number of people 65 and older in the U.S. with dementia is expected to grow in the coming decades. As the population ages ...

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For example, population health programs tend to be fragmented, as approaches are typically executed under 1 stakeholder’s umbrella (eg, all population health activities occurring under the ...

Leaders and their businesses will be hearing more and more about “Population Health” in the immediate future as it applies to the health of the public as a whole and as a brand strategy to ...

A population health approach examines how medical care, genetics, individual behavior, public health interventions and social indicators such as education and employment all play a role in ...

Ninety-three percent of healthcare providers believe population health will have a significant impact on their organization within the next two years, according to a recent HIMSS Analytics Survey, ...

Even health systems that tout sophisticated population health strategies admit they’re still light on risk in their contracts with commercial insurers, which limits the scope of their results.

In addition, to understand the distribution of health in a population and address inequalities, we need to measure health across different subpopulations. Yet there is little evidence on which sub ...

A key determinant of population health is the behavioral profile of a population. Nearly 80 percent of Americans reach their fifties having smoked cigarettes, been obese, or both. It is unknown to ...