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Complimentary from the publishers of Population Health News               March 2018

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  "While I get annoyed when people say it’s all about the incentives, it certainly is a founda-tional prerequisite to have meaningful incentives aligned with better chronic disease care processes and outcomes. But you also have to teach providers new skills and give them tools. I like to use the analogy of surgeons learning to use laparoscopes decades ago."
 - Katherine Schneider, M.D., M.Phil., FAAFP, CEO of Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization (DVACO).
 
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  "More than half of all patients admitted to a U.S. hospital receive an antibiotic as part of their treatment, and up to 50% of these prescriptions are not needed or are not optimally
effective as prescribed."

Excerpted from: Population Health News, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2018, "Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs Serve as Best Defense Against Growing Public Health Issue," by
Paul T. Green, Pharm.D., MHA, BCPS.

 
 
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Innovations in Population Health Financing

Provides background context on the Accountable Communities for Health Model; gives an overview of existing and emerging innovations in financing population health initiatives; provides an orientation to the balanced portfolio action framework; summarizes highlights of Vermont's population health components of all payer model and ACH initiative; followed by questions and dialogue.

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SPH Analytics: 3 Positive Trends in Population Health for 2018

1. Payer-Provider Collaboration
2. Use and Evaluation of Broader Data Sets
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Source: SPH Analytics blog, March 5, 2018


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This Month in Population Health News
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs Serve as Best Defense Against Growing Public Health Issue by Paul T. Green, Pharm.D., MHA, BCPS
  • Lack of Access to Specialty Care, Eminent Shortage Disrupts Healthcare Industry by Brooke LeVasseur
  • Making A Case For Population Health: Innovative Approach to Primary Care Transformation Moves Oregon Toward Elusive Triple Aim Goals by Evan Saulino, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Making A Case For Population Health: Partners HealthCare's Integrated Care Management Program Reduces Costs, Utilization by Jonas Varnum, MHSA
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: Q1. What Are the Most Effective Ways to Identify Patients/Members Requiring Special Attention by Using Population Health Management?
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: Q2. Is a Lack of Appropriate Provider Reimbursement Holding Back Population Health?
  • Industry News with briefs regarding Aetna Foundation and SinfoniaRx.
  • Catching Up With... Katherine Schneider, M.D., M.Phil., FAAFP
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