3 Population Health Trends to Watch in 2022
Managed Healthcare Executive January 18, 2022
Telehealth, efforts to address social determinants of health and a focus on health disparities are likely to be among the top priorities in population health this year.
COVID-19 will continue to cast its long shadow on U.S. healthcare in 2022. But for population health, there is that silver lining people so often look for: innovations and adoption of telehealth that started in 2020 will continue in 2022, even if the peak use of telehealth has tapered off. Providers and payers are also continuing to move “upstream” to the social determinants of health (SDOH), investing in housing, transportation and other factors that affect people’s health but are outside of traditional healthcare.
Another major agenda item for population health leaders next year...