HealthIT Answers March 30, 2021
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By Emmet O’Gara, Group President, Population Health Management, HMS

Population health management (PHM) isn’t a new concept for payers and providers. Thanks to the value-based care movement, healthcare experts have come to realize that treating the whole person is the key to improving health outcomes and reducing costs. As a result, greater attention has been given to providing holistic care across all phases of the patient journey.

Over the past year, the value of population health management has come into sharper focus, as the healthcare sector has grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations with a comprehensive and current picture of each member’s or patient’s medical history, chronic conditions and social determinants of health discovered that they are strongly positioned to...

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Topics: Big Data, Equity/SDOH, Healthcare System, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payment Models, Population Health Mgmt, Provider, Technology, Value Based
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