Giving Compass' Take:

· Writing for the Christensen Institute, Jessica Plante highlights the importance of population health management and how it can be leveraged to reduce the burden of chronic disease.

· What is population health management? What does it involved? How does it help address chronic disease?

· Check out this article to see how a population health tool is increasing access to patient care.

Healthcare in the United States is in crisis, with costs growing to almost $ 4 trillion in 2017, alongside some of the worst health outcomes relative to other wealthy countries. With the goal of  delivering better care outcomes while reducing care costs, healthcare providers and professionals are pursuing population health management initiatives, and seeing promising results.

While the term “population health” is defined in various ways, it’s commonly understood to refer to the health status and outcomes of a defined population, for instance all the patients served by a particular health plan or provider organization, patients with a particular diagnosis, or all the residents of a community, city or country.

Population health management is the means by which providers use data to assess population health and health disparities, and to develop interventions to improve them, cost-effectively, over time.

Read the full article about population health management by Jessica Plante at the Christensen Institute.