Hospital Impact February 11, 2015
As someone who teaches at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health and frequently attends healthcare conferences around the country, I am especially interested in how healthcare organizations are trying to establish population health management programs.
Population health management is one of those concepts that everyone is talking about. However, when I ask hospital and physician leaders what they are doing about it or how they define it, I often get confusing answers or blank stares. Those that do articulate a clear program often describe what I think is a too narrowly defined vision for population health.
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A recent white paper does an excellent job of describing the population health management program that many organizations are attempting to...