As the healthcare industry strives to converge all the data sources required to manage population health, the mass of data needed to do it well, and to both clinically and […]

Last month, David Blumenthal, MD, director of The Commonwealth Fund, addressed a 3M conference in New York City on value-based care. He mentioned soon-to-be-released recommendations from his organization on effective […]

Magill and colleagues published a nice analysis of the staffing costs of a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Compared to a regular practice that already has an electronic medical record, they […]

There is no common definition for population health. But if you ask enough healthcare executives, you’ll get a clear sense of what it means in terms of how it challenges […]

Improving care coordination for the sickest, most vulnerable and highest cost patient segments remains an important component of population health management and achieving the goals of the Triple Aim – […]

The move to accountable care is ultimately about achieving better health outcomes at lower cost while creating a better experience for the patient. This is the Triple Aim. A narrow […]

I love hearing about multi-source or all-payer claims databases (APCDs). I’m not a data scientist, but I know enough about analytics to appreciate the possibilities within an APCD. Each announcement […]

The Triple Aim is a construct developed to move past the trade-offs typical in health care improvement: improved quality at the expense of increased costs, decreased costs at the expense […]

Reducing healthcare costs through better care delivery begs the question: “Where do we start?” When the goal includes something to the effect of “the greatest possible improvement for a population,” […]

The path to better population health outcomes is difficult–and our approach to quality measurement may be making it harder. Process measure improvement does not consistently lead to outcomes that matter, […]