Mark Behl Presents: Five Hurdles in Population Health
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Population health is a burgeoning field that holds great potential for revolutionizing the way that healthcare is carried out. But before this potential can be realized, there are some hurdles that need be overcome.
Mark Behl Presents: Five Hurdles in Population Health
- 2. The health industry has yet to define the true meaning of population health.
- 3. According to improvingpopulationhealth.org, population health is defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.
- 4. Before population health becomes common practice, there will be some hurdles that need to be addressed.
- 5. Lets take a look at some of these hurdles according to healthcareitnews.com.
- 6. 1. Lack of Compliance by Clinicians
- 7. Many health networks have applied evidence-based pathways, protocols and decision trees outlining how they want patients treated by doctors and nurses.
- 8. However, getting clinicians to comply as well is another hurdle in itself.
- 9. 2. Too Little Clinical Care for Patients
- 10. Poor adherence continues and it leads to massive over-utilization of the system due in part to a number of different technologies coming to market.
- 11. Patients and health insurance companies are changing the way people pay for health insurance.
- 12. 3. Population Health "Hotspotting" Not Yet Widespread
- 13. The practice of population health involves providers taking a look at data analytics to find patient populations that consume large portions of cost care and identify ways to bring and change to those population subsets.
- 14. However, because its still an emerging practice, the data is not quite there yet to be scrubbed.
- 15. 4. Abundance of Data
- 16. Sometimes when youre trying to solve or find a problem, data can help. The problem is that when you have too much data to analyze, it becomes hard to figure out where to start.
- 17. Everyday, patients are constantly generating new data and its hard to account for every piece of data.
- 18. 5. The Need to Activate More Patients
- 19. Providers need to better figure out how to incorporate their patients, whether thats as simple as taking medications regularly or...
- 20. ...actually changing long-standing lifestyle habits, to drive adherence because its the key to better outcomes, reducing overutilization and ultimately slashing costs.