How Are Population Health, Patient Engagement Different?

Patient Engagement December 29, 2020
Sara Heath

Using strong patient engagement strategies, healthcare providers can enact effective population health management programs.

Population health and patient engagement have emerged as critical in the push for value-based care in recent years. As the healthcare industry pushes toward reimbursement models that emphasize value and outcomes, it has recognized the role the patient and the health of populations will have in achieving key outcomes.

The trouble, which is seen across a number of healthcare concepts, is population health and patient engagement can be somewhat nebulous topics. Although both have had a consequential impact on the industry’s progress toward value-based care, it is easy for stakeholders to use these terms interchangeably or to conflate them into one.

However, population health and patient...

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