In order to provide holistic healthcare to a community and improve clinical outcomes, hospitals need to pull out of the mindset of only optimizing care and consider population health management (PHM). Social determinants, including access to care, access to exercise, available food, living conditions, etc. play a fundamental role in affecting the clinical outcomes of patients in a certain area. In order to improve the population health of a community, hospitals need to look at strategies that engage patients to talk about and improve their lifestyle choices.
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In response to why those were accelerating their plans, an article in Healthcare Informatics states that the respondents mirrored the response of one physician leader for a multispecialty physician group near Boston, who stated, “Accelerating your PHM strategy has never been more important given uncertainty and expanding hurdles to achieving quality care and outcomes.”
How PHM Facilitates a Value-Based Care Model
Value-based healthcare model is the new framework for all healthcare delivery in the United States (see our previous post about hospitals and value-based care). So how does population health management tie into value-based care? According to David B. Nash, MD, MBA, editor-in-chief of P&T, is Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health:
"Now, is the theme of transparency and accountability specifically and traditionally part of population health? Well, from my perspective, how can you improve the health of the population if the population doesn’t have access to the best possible information regarding cost, quality, outcomes—in one word, value?"
Optimizing Population Health Strategies to Improve