Care Coordination

An industry-wide shift to population health means patients and providers are focusing more on how to get healthy and stay healthy.

The following recommendations are based on  a study of 12 successful population health collaborations nationwide.

A recent study showed less than 7 percent of insured adults recently diagnosed with diabetes participated in diabetes self-management education training, according to Reuters.

Smart care teams — a group of physician assistants, nurses, social workers, coaches and physicians — communicating in real time, 24/7, with consumers, will personalize the provider-patient relationship and shift the care model to prediction and prevention.

Concord, N.H.-based Granite Healthcare Network has chosen Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth's cloud-based population health management program to help manage and coordinate care across the network.

In population health, the extent to which patients understand health terms and concepts can directly affect their health status.

Socioeconomic status can be an indicator of adverse events for patients.

Some of the nation's most prestigious systems have developed successful population health strategies without forming a Medicare accountable care organization.

Although relatively new and not precisely defined, "population health" has been one of the biggest buzzwords in healthcare this year.

More than 80 percent of urgent care centers across the country reported growth in 2013 to accommodate an increased patient base, according to the Urgent Care Association of America's 2014 Benchmarking Study.