athenaInsight May 8, 2017
We’ve still got a long way to go to fulfill the vision of population health. That’s the takeaway from a candid roundtable conversation among 22 executive leaders — many of them physicians — convened at athenahealth this spring.
Traveling from hospitals, accountable care organizations, and health systems across the country, these health leaders gathered with Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson to dissect the goals of and obstacles to a value-based healthcare system — and learn from each other how to get there.
Here are three big insights from the conversation.
1. Population health is an iterative process
Population health is often viewed as a chasm to cross. But Edmondson cited an alternate definition, proposed by David Kindig...