Population Health Articles, Healthcare News

Healthcare Informatics Article

The patient-centered medical home concept is moving forward nationwide, with countless variations on a general theme, along with some universals. Healthcare and healthcare IT leaders agree: wiring up this home means putting all the strategic, process, and technology pieces together for success.

View PDF

More Information

Scaling Population Health Management Starts with Data

Population health management (PHM) requires validated data. Without data integrity, it is difficult for care teams to know which patient care gaps exist and where the opportunities for quality improvement lie. Validated data are also essential for risk stratification, care management, quality measurement, and scalability of population health across an organization.

View PDF

More Information

Automation is Key to Managing a Population's Health

Requirements for success with population health management include a high degree of clinical data integration across the healthcare organization’s care enterprise and automated tools for engaging patients in their own care.

View PDF

More Information

Affinity Medical Group's Medical Home Journey

How do you take a major concept, the medical home, and successfully roll it out to a medical group with more than 1,000 employees and 26 locations? According to Christine Griger, M.D., President of Affinity Medical Group, "It takes effective, thoughtful, and engaging leadership that incorporates communication and vision to launch a change of this size."

View PDF

More Information

Data is the Key to Population Health Management

Managing populations - whether an aggregation of patients or a physical community – is a burgeoning field in healthcare as a way to improve care while containing costs. Many of the IT initiatives currently underway are related to population health in one way or another: electronic health records, meaningful use, interoperability, accountable care organizations, disease state management, pay-for-performance and patient-centered medical home all have elements that relate to managing patients in groups.

View PDF

More Information

Mind the Gap! As A Practice Profile

Developing models of care to deal with high-risk and chronic-care patients can benefit the practice as well as its partners in the care continuum

View PDF

More Information

Medical Home IT Is on the Team

The patient-centered medical home model taps a variety of technologies, entering the care continuum at an earlier stage and potentially providing better integration among providers. However, culturalchange can be as big an obstacle as technical challenges, according to early adopters.

View PDF

More Information

Next Generation of Care: Software Helps Doctors Identify and Contact At-Risk Patients

Dallas-based Phytel created technology that gives doctors a broad view of their patient population and alerts them if a patient is at risk and needs to see their health-care provider.

View PDF

More Information

Phytel Launches New Care Management Platform

Phytel has announced the launch of its Atmosphere platform, which integrates population health data with a patient communication engine to help providers proactively improve chronic and preventive care.

View PDF

More Information