HealthsystemCIO.com January 9, 2018
Population health management software and support services have been hot topics in healthcare and healthcare IT for several years now, and are among the top three expenditures of health systems, according to a poll reported in Healthcare Finance in October of 2015. One would hope it is because of an increased awareness of the needs of our patient populations and an overwhelming desire to provide better care and outcomes for them.
Unfortunately, I suspect much of the vendor and industry excitement is really about the increasing money being spent on population health management. According to PRNewswire, the global population health management solutions market was estimated to be $8.92 billion in 2016 and is expected to grow over $50.35 billion by...