Tech Step #2: Using Data To Optimize Consumer Care Coordination & Population Health Management

More performance-based contracting means more responsibility for population health management for provider organizations – and success means adopting the technology to support rapid management decisions that are central to successful population health management. How do you do this – while reinventing case management, care management, and utilization management processes? Applied analytics that can produce the most useful insights into data – with two essential functions:

Risk stratification – Provider organizations need the ability to perform strategic analysis of data for risk stratification and care management and that means adopting technology that tracks patients’ utilization, outcomes, and cost for better predictions. The key competencies . . .