Practice-Based Population Health: Information Technology To Support Transformation To Proactive Primary Care

July 1, 2010 In July 2011, the Agency for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a paper defining practice-based population health (PBPH) as an approach to care that : 1. uses information on a group of patients within a primary care practice or group of practices to improve the care and clinical outcomes of patients within that practice; 2. develops lists of patients to invite to a group educational session on smoking cessation or chronic disease self-management; 3. identifies patients to notify in the case of a medication recall; 4. finds patients who are eligible for participation . . .