MedCity News July 28, 2020
Population health management advocates need to demonstrate how redefining care management by adopting a holistic viewpoint to include what’s happening outside the hospital will help systems influence health at scale and improve care at a lower cost.
As reimbursement increasingly shifts away from treating specific conditions and toward value-based care, considering a patient’s holistic health journey via population health management (PHM) is paramount. In recent months especially, with the pandemic forcing more and more people to rethink the normal delivery of care, health systems have been challenged to balance scaling access to care while reducing strain on facilities. For many healthcare systems, however, transitioning to value-based care is easier said than done. This is largely due to the fact that...