HIStalk Practice June 19, 2015
A group of 35 C-level healthcare executives polled at the recent Midas+ Annual Symposium unanimously agreed that population health management is necessary as the U.S. shifts to more value-based healthcare reimbursement and delivery models.
The group of executives, which collectively represents over 80,000 beds from more than 480 hospitals, was asked to provide their perspective on population health management, starting with how it should be defined. We asked them to rank five components of a definition in order of significance.
According to this group, the most important requirements of a population health management program is that it “facilitates care across the health continuum” and that it “supports providing the highest quality of care at the lowest cost.”
What is population...