Fierce Health Technology January 4, 2021
Mark Ganz isn’t a fan of healthcare’s fixation on population health.
Ganz, who recently left the role of CEO of Cambia Health Solutions, told Fierce Healthcare in a recent interview that looking at health through a population lens creates distance between the healthcare system and the patient that doesn’t allow for digging into their individual needs.
Population health comes from a place of good intentions, he said. But prescribing solutions to populations without first getting to know people in an individual way is an “elitist” way to help them.
“It’s a distancing thing when you talk about a population because then you don’t have to get into the nitty-gritty of an individual person’s life and an individual family’s journey,” Ganz...
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