Although relatively new and not precisely defined, "population health" has been one of the biggest buzzwords in healthcare this year.
That is why Becker's Hospital Review provided this list of must-read articles on the cost, challenges, impact and evolution of population health, as well as its milestones, goals and tips for success.
1. Paying for population health: Why rewarding value is key
2. Taking a patient-centered approach to population health management
3. Population health management: Hospitals' changing employer role
4. Health system C-suiters, meet the chief population health officer
5. 10 key statistics for managing population health
6. 6 questions to evaluate population health initiatives
7. Operation population health: Cultural and process changes facing hospitals today
9. 5 market factors influencing population health contracts
10. Patient-centered medical neighborhoods: How Orlando Health is embracing population health
11. Are you misusing the term "population health?"
12. CEOs: Population health experience is hardest skill set to find
13. Population health lessons from hospitals in the U.S.' healthiest counties: 3 CEOs share successes
14. Is Walgreens doing more for population health than you?
15. Population health: Why the hottest term in healthcare is getting problematic
16. Patient-centered analytics for population health management
17. 12 milestones for population health competency
18. The NFL is a blow to population health. So why do so many health systems support the league?
19. 3 population health management goals for hospitals
20. 4 tips for hospitals looking to master population health management
21. 5 myths surrounding the business of population health management
22. How to succeed at population health management in the shifting healthcare environment
23. The evolution of population health: 10 statistics
24. A practical approach to population health: Report from the front-lines of healthcare transformation
For more articles like these in the future, be sure to keep visiting Becker's Hospital Review's newly launched population health channel.