Population health management can help focus clinical resources
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...