Population management, as defined by the Disease Management Association of America, is “a system of coordinated healthcare interventions and communications for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant.” Population management focuses on the following: dentifying the similar risk factors affecting a group, determining what steps can be taken to improve the health of a group, identifying preventive care intervention, analyzing aggregated patient data to assist in the clinical decision-making process, using preferred patient communication to follow up with patients.
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New Payment Models and Big Data Analytics
Avnish Rastogi (Oracle Corp, USA)
Copyright: © 2014
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch145
Abstract
It has been fascinating to watch how American healthcare delivery system is going through a paradigm shift to meet new government mandates and bend the care delivery cost curve. For years, US health care system has been fragmented and falling short on quality, outcomes, costs, and lacking framework to support care continuum. According to the study conducted by National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, for many years, US population has been dying at the younger age than population with similar characteristics in other countries such as Canada, Australia and Japan. When compared with the peer countries, US Population did worse in health areas such as drug related deaths, obesity, chronic diseases, disability, etc. (Institute of Medicine of the National Academics. 2013 in, U.S Health in International Perspective Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.)