Managed Health Care Connect October 3, 2019
Nancy Myers, PhD, vice president at the American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation, and James Dom Dera, MD, FAAFP, population health medical director at NewHealth Collaborative/Summa Health, recently spoke at Health Care Quality Congress 2019. Together they discussed care coordination in the health care setting and provided practical applications for both primary care and health systems.
At the beginning of the session, Dr Myers said that although health care has always been a team, a different team is needed that is well coordinated. She explained that population health is the health outcomes of a group that include the distribution of such outcomes within the group. She said that it is important to pay attention to the person who is...