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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Population health, alternatively, uses an outcome-driven approach to “manage” health for a specific group of individuals, typically defined by attribution. 5-7 These interventions involve the ...

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, ...

Hacker K, Walker DK. Achieving population health in accountable care organizations. Am J Public Health. 2013:103 (7);1163-1167. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301254 Stoto MA.

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 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 ...

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.

Every ~20 seconds in the U.S a woman aged 50 or older suffers a fracture.1 These fractures result in higher rates of hospitalization than heart attack, stroke, or breast cancer, while having ...