Complimentary from the publishers of Population Health News April, 2014 | |||||
“Population health is the
ability to define and understand the health status of every individual
patient and proactively deploy medical resources to support those
patients, whether it is to push resource to them where they are, or
effectively connect them to the optimal resource in a patient specific
manner, accelerated by technology.” Thomas Graf, M.D., Chief
Medical Officer, Population Health and Longitudinal Care Service Lines,
Geisinger Health System. |
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"One in 6 [American]
households are food insecure, and two-thirds of the population is
overweight or obese…we suffer from poor dietary patterns. Foodborne
illnesses have reached 76 million annually, accounting for 325,000
hospitalizations and 5000 deaths each year." |
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Source: Dietary Patterns, and Effect on Population Health, Get Attention from Advisory Panel AJMC.com, March 17, 2014 | |||||
Geisinger Health Plan Deploys Caradigm to Improve Population
Health Caradigm, April 15, 2014 |
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Retail Medicine: Serious Players in Population Health?
Ike Bennion, Leavitt Partners, April 10, 2014 |
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Chief Population Health Officers: Who are they and what roles
will they play? Monthly Market Insight, April 2014 |
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Faith-Based Partnerships for Population Health: Challenges,
Initiatives, and Prospects Public Health Reports, March–April 2014 |
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ProHealth Care Drives Population Health Through Epic’s Cogito
Data Warehouse Pro Health Press Release, March 24, 2014 |
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Health Choice Partners with Valence Health to Support Population
Health Initiatives Valence Health Press Release, March 18, 2014 |
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Dietary Patterns, and Effect on Population Health, Get Attention from Advisory Panel AJMC.com, March 17, 2014 | |||||
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