Population Health Management Discussion - Patient Engagement

CSU GLOBAL Discovery Question on Population Health Management Discussion

Discovery Question - for discussion board post.  Choose 1 of the following questions and post your response to the discussion board.

DQ 1: Patient Engagement

The readings for this week have made the case for the importance of patient engagement and population health management to delivering accountable care.  Discuss three main components of population health as they relate to patient engagement:  1.) Data Management, 2) Care Management, and 3.) Analytics.  Which do you think will be easily adapted by healthcare organizations as they work toward patient engagement and which will be more difficult?  Explain and support your answer with evidence from our assigned readings or from other new information you have discovered.

DQ 2: Population Health Stakeholders

Can providers, payers and communities work collaboratively on the population health initiatives?  In the Health Catalyst video about New Ulm, we saw how some communities are participating in population health successfully.  What are the key ingredients for making this kind of community involvement model successful?  Can this be replicated in other communities? Why or why not?

DQ 3:  Population Health Data Interpretation Exercise

Details for doing this exercise are in the attached pdf document.  Post your completed exercise to the discussion board for comments from the group. For discussion,  the group may provide comments on:

What differences do you notice between seeing the data in a table or a chart?

What difference do you notice between including all the data in the chart or only the data where the A1C is not in control?

What are your conclusions about the most effective ways to present this data to executives?

What are some action steps executives might take after seeing this data?