Health IT Analytics July 19, 2017
Jennifer Bresnick

What’s the difference between population health, public health, and community health?

The rapid proliferation of value-based care arrangements, driven by EHR adoption and the subsequent explosion of big data, has given providers both the opportunity and the financial imperative to focus on delivering holistic, preventive healthcare to their attributed patients.

Instead of simply addressing acute ailments on a piecemeal basis as they arise, healthcare organizations are transitioning to a longer-term view of patient wellness in an effort to keep individuals as healthy as possible for as long as possible.

In order to make the leap from sick care to maintaining wellness, providers must understand the likely trajectory of an individual’s illness or chronic condition.

This requires clinicians to have access...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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