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	"Narrow networks, where participation is offered to providers based on their ability to offer network beneficiaries (who are also referred to as patients!) evidence-informed and value-oriented care, can tremendously enhance all the goals of population health. Within those arrangements, narrow network providers can receive incentives for addressing all the key elements of effective population health, including preventive, acute and chronic care, and for their collaboration with other providers, as well as with patients through a range of metric-driven payment models. To achieve this positive population health outcome requires a shared and sustainable long-range view between the providers in the network and the network administrators about what high-value population health-oriented care is, how it is measured and how it is reimbursed." -Jeremy Nobel, M.D., Medical Director, Northeast Business Group on Health, Instructor, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health
	"In 2012, healthcare-related costs were approximately $2.8 trillion, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report. The Commonwealth Fund's June 2014 report and prior survey and national health scorecards, find that of 11 developed countries, the United States ranked first in healthcare spending and last in quality." Excerpted from: Population Health News, Volume 1, Issue 5, August 2014, "Clinical Practice Guidelines Hold Untapped Potential for Achieving Quality Care" by William Bithoney, M.D., FAAP
	Addressing Population Health and Inequalities: The Role of Fundamental Causes American Journal of Public Health, September 2014
	Electronic Cigarettes, Smoking and Population Health Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, August 2014
	Health Information Technology: A Game Changer for Population Health Healthcare Informatics, August 13, 2014
	Acupera Raises Additional $4 Million for Population Health Platform Acuerpa Press Release, August 12, 2014
	Gallup-Healthways Well-Being 5™ Measures Population Health and Well-being Healthways Press Release, August 7, 2014
	Cerner Buys Siemens to Boost Population Health, RCM Assets Health IT Analytics, August 7, 2014
	Patient Care and Population Health: Goals, Roles and Costs Journal of Public Health Research, August 4, 2014
	Planning Healthcare Facilities: Patients' Points of View by Debbie Jacobs, Don McCall and Lawrence Sterle Clinical Practice Guidelines Hold Untapped Potential for Achieving Quality Care by William Bithoney, M.D., FAAP Making a Case for Population Health - Mobile Unit Supports Enrollment, Access to Healthcare by Donna Graham Quality Management: Achieving Clinical and Financial Objectives in Population Health by John Khoury, Pharm.D. Thought Leader's Corner: What is the Impact of Narrow Networks on Population Health? Industry News with briefs regarding Gallup, Healthways, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California. Catching Up with... Tricia Nguyen, M.D., MBA 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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