Having the right information is key in population health decision making. Finding the appropriate granularity within a health dataset and generating comprehensive forecasts to determine the clinical needs of a […]

Value-based purchasing and population health management are supposed to change aspects of the relationship between insurers (health plans) and providers (accountable care organizations, health systems, etc).  New contracts are supposed […]

With HIMSS17 around the corner, I’ve been thinking about advances in technology and data and the history of silos and systems in healthcare delivery. Optimizing a part of a complex […]

Let’s assume you’re about to sign a contract to manage a population of several thousand. The goal of the contract is to improve care delivery, improve outcomes and reduce the […]

Improving the rate of mammography or colorectal cancer screening for appropriate individuals is a good thing. I suspect that my experience in practice was similar to others: Our group would […]

The recent report describing a decline in new cases of diabetes is good news. An article about it in The New York Times does a nice job describing the lifestyle […]

From disease management to chronic care management to managed care and capitation, numerous initiatives over the past two decades have tried to promote better outcomes. So will the results be […]

What is the impact of the social determinants of health, such as income, education and occupation, as U.S. health care moves from volume to value-based care with a focus on […]

Population Health Management (PHM) is the application of specific interventions and approaches within a healthcare delivery system designed to improve and maintain the health of a population. PHM strategies should […]

Success in population health management rests in part on being able to identify high cost/high utilization population segments and provide interventions that help achieve better outcomes. With enough of a […]

Shifting from volume to value might seem daunting, but there are strategies and tools to ease the transition.

Dr. L. Gordon Moore, 3M senior medical director, describes how to put population health management into practice.