Complimentary from the publishers of Population Health News June 2018

"Coordination of care based on the risks and health status is the key to a strong Population Health program. By also going beyond what happens within the walls of a doctor’s exam room, we can help prevent people from getting sick in the first place, or we can increase the possibility of better outcomes with earlier more effective interventions. Effective coordination of these efforts can help reduce the demands on the health care system and the burden of patients suffering with more complex and costly conditions. This will be critical as the aging population outpaces the number or primary care physicians necessary to treat the population."
- Dr. Richard Seidman, Chief Medical Officer, L.A. Care Health Plan.

"By using analytical techniques like Topological Data Analysis, alongside supervised prediction the IDN [integrated delivery network] was able to identify the key populations of prostate cancer + other comorbidities. These smaller patient groups provide for significantly better cost prediction - more than 50% better than in traditional techniques."

Excerpted from: Population Health News, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2018, "Developments in Data Science and Population Health," by Michael McCabe.

Use Incentives to Improve Population Health, Experience of Care, and Per Capita Costs

By examining the association between area-level hospital uncompensated care provision and hospital contributions to public health activities for the period 2006-2016, this study aims to lend evidence to the hypothesis that reducing uncompensated care costs might enable hospitals to re-allocate resources for population health improvement.

Jennifer Bresnick: Top 5 Questions for Payers about Population Health Initiatives

1. What Are Your Goals and How Will You Measure Them?
2. What Are the Reimbursement Options for Supporting This Work?
3. Click to continue

Source: Health IT Analytics, May 29, 2018

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Developments in Data Science and Population Health by Michael McCabe
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Industry News with briefs regarding higi, Maxim Healthcare and Leidos, Capital Blue, i2i Population Health, and Grand View Research.
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