Jaime Murillo, MD, shares insight on the significance of early use of American College of Cardiology treatment guidelines to manage total cost of care for patients with heart failure. Dr Murillo ...

Two out of three healthcare leaders believe population health management will be very important or critically important to their organization’s success, a recent survey found. Yet there are signs many ...

Population health management has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years, as health systems work to prevent disease and improve access to care for large groups of patients – all while reining ...

One of the aims of health reform is improving population health. While hospitals have always been committed to the community, this new focus on population health management expands hospitals’ ...

While value-based purchasing (VBP) programs have proliferated in the past two decades, quality measures have become increasingly important as they are employed to calculate the “value” of care. The ...

Historically, hospitals have been destinations for acute medical care. Hospitals can have influence through their roles as respected organizations and large employers within their communities. Guided ...

Employers pay 80%+ of commercial (non-Medicare/Medicaid) healthcare costs, yet are often disillusioned by their experience with a conventional volume-based pharmacy benefits arrangement. Their ...

Population health management, which is based on the principles of delivering higher quality care at lower cost, is increasingly being recognized as an important part of the solution to realign a ...

Philips Global Innovation Leader Kirk Elder doesn’t like to wear watches. “If you were to approach me with a digital health experience or a chronic care program that requires a watch, I probably ...

After garnering relatively little attention in the health care marketplace, population health management (PHM) is "having a moment" thanks to a rising interest in value-based care (VBC) and the rapid ...

Click here to view the full Peer Exchange TM video series. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification is widely used by clinicians to assess symptoms and functional capacity for patients ...