Complimentary from the publishers of Population Health News August 2017

The World of Health Plans– Managing Health Over Healthcare

"Evidence-based medicine is a great starting point for new health improvement programs. After that, robust analytics enable the rapid cycle learning and continuous optimization that ensures long-term success."

- Neil Smiley, Founder/CEO, Loopback Analytics.

“The survey asked respondents about their strategies for developing PHM. The top strategies for providers are care coordination (90%) and patient engagement and information technology, both at 75%."

Excerpted from: Population Health News, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2017, "Population Health Survey Shows Decrease in Engagement."

How Payment Reform Approaches Can Address Community Population Health

AcademyHealth’s Vice President Enrique Martinez Vidal who provides an overview of their Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored Payment Reform for Population Health (P4PH) initiative. He describes the framework for considering the role of the healthcare system’s financing sources in supporting community-wide population health interventions; the challenges and barriers of using alterna-tive payment models to support population health; and lessons in how to overcome those barriers.

Jennifer Bresnick: Top 10 Challenges of Population Health Management

1. Identifying a starting point
2. Understanding patient attribution
3. Click to continue

Source: HealthIT Analytics

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The Time Is Ripe for Prior Authorization Reform by Charles W. Stellar
Predicting Readmission Risk in a Cardiac Population by Deirdre Baggot, Ph.D., R.N.
Population Health Survey Shows Decrease in Engagement
The Case for Patient-Centered Assessment of Value by Alan Balch and Darius Lakdawalla
Thought Leaders' Corner: How Is Evidence-Based Medicine Being Used to Improve Health Outcomes?
Industry News with a brief regarding SCIO Health Analytics
Catching Up With David Veroff
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