Population Health Management for Providers, Payers, and Pharmacies

As so many parts of healthcare move to value based care, I’m coming to the realization that everyone in healthcare is going to have to enhance their skills when it comes to population health management.  In some ways, this is powered by the explosion of healthcare data and the technology and communication tools that make population health a reality.  Could you really do population health at scale effectively on technology from 20 years ago with data stuck in paper charts?  I don’t think you could, but we can today.  The technology and data is there to improve population health at scale.  There’s a lot of work to be done to make it effective, but the work has begun and is starting to make an impact.

Plus, every part of the healthcare system is going to play a part in this transformation from providers to payers and even pharmacies.  What’s it going to take to make that transition?

Yousuf Ahmad, President & CEO at AssureCare, has been working on this problem for a while previously as a hospital executive and now at AssureCare.  Healthcare IT Today had the chance to sit down with him and talk about some of the market challenges healthcare organizations are facing and AssureCare’s approach to solving them.  Plus, he shares what makes AssureCare’s approach to population health different than other vendors.  Ahmad shares some of the proactive ways they are improving care for patients and he dives into how they’re working with SDoH (Social Determinants of Health) to improve the health of populations.

We also ask Ahmad to share about their work with pharmacies and he shares some of the largely untapped potential of pharmacies and the pharmacist.  He talks about how the pharmacist’s role is changing.  Finally, we discuss why it’s so important to put the patient at the center of the care continuum and what kind of impact doing so has in your population health efforts.

If you’re interested in population health across providers, payers, and pharmacy, you’ll enjoy out interview with Yousuf Ahmad, President & CEO at AssureCare.

Learn more about AssureCare: https://assurecare.com/

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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