9 Statistics on Hospital Leaders' Population Health Strategies

Staff - Thursday, October 31st, 2013

Almost all (90 percent) of healthcare leaders reported plans to pursue a population health strategy in a HealthLeaders Media survey.

The survey included results from 315 leaders from 143 hospitals and 101 health systems across the country. Findings include:

Two-thirds of health systems leaders (66 percent) reported intentions to improve population health by becoming adept at data analytics.
One-third (32 percent) of respondents expect to focus early or pilot population health efforts on a population defined by a chronic condition.
The top population health management investments over the next three years include integrating clinical care data across the care continuum (66 percent) and adding data analytics capabilities (53 percent).
Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of respondents reported pursuing partnerships with other providers to share risk while improving population health.
The most-reported financial incentive to pursue population health management was payer risk or cost-sharing, identified by 29 percent of respondents.
Healthcare leaders are confident about their negotiating power with payers: 68 percent said they are well-positioned to be among a payer's population health management partners, including 73 percent of respondents from health systems.