Complimentary from the publishers of Population Health News              July, 2015
	"The key to funding population health management programs is knowledge. The first step is simply understanding what your organization's population of patients looks like. The story lives in the data. By gaining this understanding and insight into the population, your healthcare organization will now be armed with the ability to target high-cost and unnecessary utilization of services. Providers will be empowered to stratify patients based on risk and need and can appropriately select patients who will benefit from care management. By taking this approach, you will be saving your organization and can use those savings to fund more and more health management programs. Most important will be the impact on the quality of care that you are delivering and the profound change to the lives of your patients. And that is the real ROI here." -Jason Piele, Vice President, Healthcare Provider Solutions, MedeAnalytics, Emeryville, Calif.
	"[20% of seniors] have chronic conditions and also need help with basic activities of daily living. These seniors represent 40% of all healthcare spending by those over age 65." Excerpted from: Population Health News, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2015, "Serving Senior Populations With Chronic Conditions" by Steven Counsell, M.D.
	Population Health Management Demand Increases PerfectServe's Users by 50% PerfectServe Press Release, July 14, 2015
	PrimeHealth Physicians, LLC Joins Cigna to Improve Population Health Cigna Press Release, July 13, 2015
	Shift to Population Health Payment Unlikely to Come Anytime Soon Modern Healthcare, July 11, 2015
	Population Health? Slash Health Disparities First HealthLeaders Media, July 9, 2015
	5 Ways the Primary Care Model Will Change in the Population Health Environment Becker's Hospital Review, July 7, 2015
	Tying Together the Clinical and Financial Aspects of Population Health HIE Answers, July 7, 2015
	How an REC Enables Population Health with Big Data Analytics Health IT Analytics, July 6, 2015
	Direct Primary Care: Changing the Healthcare Industry by Alex Tolbert Cultural Implications of Population Health Management by Michael N. Abrams, M.A., Kimberly E. White, MBA, and Christen M. Buseman, Ph.D., MPH Making a Case for Population Health - Serving Senior Populations With Chronic Conditions by Steven Counsell, M.D. Cracking the Consumer Engagement Code by Lance Hood Thought Leader's Corner: How Should Healthcare Organizations Fund Population Health Management Programs? Industry News with briefs regarding the Coverage to Care RAND report, America's Health Insurance Plans survey, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Catching Up with... Peter R. Kongstvedt, M.D., FACP Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Population Health News, or find out more
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