Fixing Your Approach to Population Health Starts with Actionable Data

Healthcare stakeholders continually grapple with challenges in effectively managing population health. Understanding the diverse needs of patients, particularly concerning social determinants of health (SDOH), is crucial, especially for individuals with chronic conditions like diabetes. This article highlights key barriers contributing to inconsistent SDOH data capture and the difficulty in utilizing unstructured healthcare data. It emphasizes the necessity of seamless access to actionable population health data integrated into clinicians' workflows, underlining the importance of intuitive dashboards and predictive analytics for real-time interventions. Additionally, it explores opportunities for collaboration between health systems and plans to identify gaps in patient health needs and proposes strategies for sustaining improvements in population health management through data-informed innovation and clear vision-setting. Read the entire article here