Modern Healthcare April 7, 2018
Healthcare leaders need to expand their vision of what it means to pursue population health management to raise quality, lower costs, and improve the overall health of their patients.
Since its beginnings in the mid-1990s, the industry defined population health management by looking inward. Systems and physician practices focused on improving the health of their patients. Payers used the term to describe efforts to improve the health of the people directly in their charge.
Enthusiasm for this style of population health management emerged alongside the rapid expansion of health information technology. In fact, the first mention of population health management in the medical literature came in a 1996 article in a now defunct medical informatics journal. It defined the concept...
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