Digital Health June 16, 2023
Population health management (PHM) has the potential to eliminate some of the legwork in health visits and help clinicians forecast patients of needs, a panel of clinicians told a session of the NHS Confederation Expo 2023 on Wednesday.
Dr. Jim Forrer, a GP from Devon and director at Optum UK, noted that visiting a patient in the home enables the doctor to learn about their culture, their family and provide information at a global health.
Integrating such information, including the wider determinants of health, into linked records, can allow a doctor to be reactive before the patient arrives in their surgery.
“Through linked records, you can connect with other people through newly formed teams and understand them...