Population health management (PHM) is a discipline within the healthcare industry that includes collecting and analysing data on segments of your patient population and managing specific diseases within that population.
Benefits of PHM
- Improve the health outcomes of a group by monitoring and identifying individual patients within that group.
- Provides a comprehensive clinical picture of the group being monitored.
- Providers can track, and hopefully improve, clinical outcomes while lowering costs.
- Configurable risk stratification level.
- Provides real-time insights to both clinicians and administrators and allow them to identify and address health care gaps within the patient population.
High Level Features of PHM
- Enables providers to configure the stratification using entities like Demographics, Problems, Medications, BMI, Allergy, Lab results, Smoking History, Family History
- Allows providers to create as ruleset based on the stratification and could search further on it.
- Providers could initiate messaging.
- Providers could setup appointment request.
- Providers could initiate survey.
- Providers could initiate campaign.
- Providers could send appointment reminders.
- Providers could initiate participatory program like free diabetic health checkup.
- Provider can initiate health events and patient engagements based on customized rulesets (i.e. weight loss program BMI>25.)