According to Premier’s 2013 Fall Economic Outlook report, lifestyle and wellness coaching is the most popular resource to invest in to improve population health management: 71.6 percent of survey respondents indicated their hospital invested in the resource.
The following are the other main resources hospital leaders said they have invested in for population health management.
• Patient-centered medical homes: 62.4 percent
• Transitional and/or end-of-life care: 61.5 percent
• Home health: 56.9 percent
• Patient risk stratification: 45.9 percent
• Virtual care/telemedicine: 41.3 percent
• Partnering with payers: 41.3 percent
• Integrated clinical, supply chain and financial data: 37.6 percent
• Patient registry to track services across a population: 30.3 percent
Premier’s data is based on an online survey with 454 respondents. Hospital C-suite members accounted for about 30 percent of responses, and supply chain, service line and administrative managers comprised a majority of responses.
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