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Playing the Long Game: Part 8 – Measuring performance in care management
Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the importance of taking a population-based approach to care management. A population-based care management approach applies care services across the full continuum of health, for ALL patients, with the aim of providing...
Playing the Long Game: Part 7 – Clinical screening, a calculated approach to care
Throughout this blog series, Playing the Long Game, we’ve underlined the importance of managing health for every patient, regardless of where they are at in their health journey. We described the potential long-term gains under this approach, as it pertains to...
Global Risk Arrangements: three reasons why your reimbursement may be falling short
Purchasers of healthcare are demanding accountability and seeking out providers who demonstrate the ability to deliver high-value care (i.e., better patient outcomes & experience, through smarter spending). In many competitive markets, this has led to increased...
Playing the Long Game: Part 6 – Understanding Risk & the Factors Driving It
This series, "Playing the Long Game", is all about achieving success in a population-based care management system. A population-based care management system applies care services across the full continuum of health, for all patients, with the aim of providing...
Playing the Long Game: Part 5 – Building the 360-Degree Patient Profile
In our most recent blog post of this series, Playing the Long Game, we broke down the first step towards effective population health monitoring, which we refer to as “Identification” (i.e., getting the patient to patient and patient to provider relationship correct)....
Playing the Long Game: Part 4 – Getting the patient-to-patient and patient-to-provider relationships correct
In part 3 of this blog series, we outlined three critical capabilities needed in any population-based care management analytics platform. They were, Population health monitoring Clinical screening Performance measurement Over the next several blogs, we’ll break down...
Playing the Long Game-Part 3 – Achieving High-performance Healthcare Through Advanced Analytics
In blog 1 of this series, we discussed the importance of taking a population-based approach to care management, with the goal of keeping patients healthy and slowing the progression of disease. Recall that a population-based care management approach applies care...
Playing the Long Game: Part 2 – A quick huddle on risk, predictive modeling, and stratification
In Part 1 of our blog series, Playing the Long Game, we discussed the importance of taking a population-based approach to care management. An important concept within this framework is managing risk at all levels of the population through wellness promotion,...
Playing the Long Game: Part 1 – Taking a population based approach to care management
Health care delivery systems across the United States are focused on improving the health of populations through better care and smarter spending. Over this past decade, proactive care management has emerged as a leading strategy to achieve these goals. What is Care...