Population health management (PHM) is an approach to healthcare that unites various organizations' efforts to improve the overall population's health outcomes.
Some of the goals of PHM include reducing healthcare costs, preventing chronic diseases, and focusing on preventative care to reduce the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
How is Population Health Management Implemented?
Population health management is implemented via collaborative programs between physicians, social workers, health departments, governments, and other groups with an interest in promoting healthy communities.
PHM programs collect healthcare data from a wide range of sources, such as electronic health records, insurance claims and medical billing data, and demographic information from Medicare and other government health programs. All of this data is aggregated to identify health trends, population risks, and current healthcare gaps.
The various groups participating in PHM will then create programs or process enhancements in their individual healthcare organizations to help improve health trends in the population. PHM plans often prioritize technology solutions since health IT systems streamline and improve patient care.
How Is Population Health Management Measured?
PHM efforts are measured with a wide variety of metrics. Some of the data that is analyzed to determine the effectiveness of PHM programs include:
Health outcomes: PHM programs hope to improve health outcomes such as mortality rates, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations.
Clinical quality: Clinical quality measures like HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) are assessed for improvements.
Cost savings: Healthcare spending trends are evaluated over time, with an eye toward decreasing costs.
Other clinical and non-clinical data is analyzed to gauge the impact of PHM programs on population health outcomes.
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