Patient Engagement June 3, 2019
Healthcare organizations building out population health strategies must consider community partnerships and data-driven policy changes.
A new report from NYU Langone Department of Population Health outlines key elements of a community health and population health management plan, complete with community partnerships and data insights to address the social determinants of health.
The report, published in Academic Medicine, acknowledged the fact that most medical professionals agree that population health is important, but the evolving definition of the word makes it hard to develop a concrete strategy.
Healthcare has embraced the idea of health that occurs both inside and outside the clinic, but has not yet created an evidence-backed approach to managing it.
“This more comprehensive approach has given rise to a...