Population Health Management means proactive application of strategies and interventions to defined cohorts of individuals across the continuum of healthcare delivery in an effort to maintain and/or improve the health of the individuals within the cohort at the lowest necessary cost.

With the new era of healthcare, a good population management system in place is critical to a health system. Organizations will grow to become dependent on data and analayis in order to carry out actions or what not within the said system. Furthermore, with the advent of information technology and a well-designed population health tools, it can create substantial impact to the patient through electronic medical records and healthcare information exhancge,;