Forbes July 24, 2019
Rahul Patel

While population health management (PHM) has been bantered about for more than a decade, the shift to value-based care has more recently expedited its adoption. As clinicians and health care executives look to leverage all means possible to improve patient outcomes and manage rising costs, PHM is enabling them to better understand patient populations, identify and stratify those at risk, and intervene accordingly to manage the health and wellness of targeted populations of patients.

The ultimate goal of PHM — improved patient outcomes — is enabled when physicians and systems have a deeper understanding of the behaviors and history of specific patient populations and patients become better engaged in their own care. Yet, ironically, this strategy, which is supposed to...

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