it is positive shift among corporate sector. Many of them are concerned about health & wellbeing. Specially if we take example of IT, term of “population health.” is highlighted. The focus is clearly seem to be shifted toward more accountability for healthcare outcomes, but what does this new buzzword actually remain in area of limited conservative terms, in their projection health care meance insurance, pathological checkup or varieties of modern dio gnostic method mean for healthcare providers in the the term of "population health" management? Then is it really full and complete approach. I think we should rethink and redesign plan for population health serious, all these methods make them aware about health disorders, as per modern medical science many of them start medication as per proscribe manner, but tell me how many of them get ultimate result and permanently coming out from.medicine. Many of them take medicine through out their lifespan, and develop permenant dependecy onedicine. High blood pressute, diabeties, constipation etc health disorders need medicine lifelong, are they think about permenant cure. Where rmplyees can stop medicine permenantly. No such type of incidencr nevwr ever progtess.
is their approach is making direct difference in the actual area of qualitative personal health?
We have done serval visit to the various corporate sectors. We found Specially IT institutions really cooperated and support too. Because IT business is directly depend upon qualitative healthy employees. We are failed to get response from Automobile sectors.
No doubt modern medical mechanism do better enforement to to spend money on the area of diognostic & medication but not corrective lifestyle. Many corporate sector get right picture of corporate health, but if you will think modern medical line of treatment, is allow them spend money on various types of lab test, work. regular basis huge amount of corporate sector spend on laboratory of pathology, they got check up reports get collected regular basis but over all quality of health is hardly found difference.
now question is how long this modern method will remain and active only on pathological ground?
When management will be serious and actually lifestyle rather than medication and insurance only. Employees need simple practical coaching on regular basis, where they can keep them selves healthy?
Where masses of employees will see together and practice our original practical Yogic and nature cure sciences, where whole world finding difference in their overall health?
If you will refet above given statements of renowned authorities, then you will come to know that each of them have given full and complete meaning what earler population health is?
but no definition is high lighting actual practical approach about population health, corrective lifestyle and principles of wellbeing!
Recently whole world is celebrated 21 June as a #YogaWotldDay. It has real potential rather than routine pathologically checkup, recheck up and line of medical treatments.
Don't you think it is an important evenue openup toward actual concern about population and it's right tool to.makr corporate community healthy.
Population health was defined by David Kindig and Greg Stoddart as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.”
Most healthcare executives surveyed by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University didn’t necessarily adhere to that specific definition, but generally, they believe the term defines the opportunity for health care systems, agencies and organizations to work together in order to improve the health outcomes for communities.
Here are 10 different definitions of the term given out of the 37 surveyed, according to HIT Consultant:
Wayne Brackin – Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Baptist Health South Florida
“My definition is practical. You need to define the population and decide what it is you’re going to manage and what doctors are needed. To be more specific, let me give you an example. A partnership was created with Florida International University College of Medicine and Baptist Health South Florida/South Miami Hospital to care for 100 disadvantaged families in a defined neighborhood adjacent to the hospital. It is a defined population, there are identifiable needs that can be measured and a combination of providers from the medical school and the hospital will manage the families. That is a working definition of population health management.”
Brian Churchill – Director of Clinical Content and Decision Support, Peacehealth
“The goal of population health is to improve the quality of care and outcomes while managing costs for a defined group of people. The defined group of people and the health management interventions can be identified by demographic differences, health needs such as chronic diseases or disabilities, or the health needs of the underserved.”
Dr. Kenneth Cohn – CEO, Healthcare Collaboration
“To me, population health involves the health of the community; it implies wellness promotion as well as the treatment of new and chronic illnesses throughout the care continuum. It also implies improving the health of people previously undermanaged, such as the poor in terms of conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and cancer.”
Gigi Desouki, MHA – Founder/CEO, Wellness On Wheels, Inc.
“Individual responsibility for physical, mental, spiritual and social health. When each person takes control of his or her health, it reflects on our families and society as a whole.”
Jack Friedman – CEO, Providence Health Plan
“Population health is the acknowledgement that the goal of all health system stakeholders is to do the most good for the most people at the least amount of cost. It requires a primary care centered model that incentivizes all providers to measure their clinical performance at the population level, and it requires interface between public and private institutions along with local community engagement. Population longevity and broad values around quality of life are the ultimate measures of success and performance.”
David Harlow – Principal (Attorney & Consultant), The Harlow Group LLC
“’Population health’ is both a means and an end. The goal is to improve the collective health status of the population at large in a given geographic area. That goal can only be accomplished through a combination of (1) behavior change, which has to be promoted in a tailored manner, using an array of appropriate tools — not only through traditional health care channels — to different subsets of the population (chronically-ill elders, new moms, engaged patients, millenials, baby-boomer weekend warriors, etc.), and (2) evidence-based medicine focused both on prevention and treatment of injury and disease and on improving function and happiness for the individuals who make up the population.”
Jay Higgins – Senior Director of Network Strategy and Surgical Program Development, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Population health is keeping people healthy in a coordinated fashion for better clinical outcomes at a lower cost. It is a ‘proactive’ solution (with personalized care and a focus on wellness) in an industry that has thrived on being ‘reactive’ (delays in treatment resulting in sicker patients, ordering unnecessary tests and sending patients to emergency departments due to primary care access challenges).
Dr. Larry Mullins – President and CEO, Samaritan Health Services
“Some would define it as determining the health of a defined group or population using health care modifiers to help make that determination. An easier answer might be just taking care of our family, friends and neighbors on a larger scale.”
Bonnie Panlasigui – Chief Administrative Officer, Alameda Hospital
“We are entering a population tsunami. For example, California will be one of the first ‘minority majority’ states in the country. How we respond to diversity in the population is key … the social inequities are the social determinants of health that impact pre-hospital chronic disease management, post-hospital surgery outcomes and readmissions — all factors that have an operational impact on a hospital.”
Barry Ronan – President & CEO, Western Maryland Health System
“Population health involves transitioning care delivery to a model that is value based which includes focusing on better case management of those patients with multiple co-morbidities, partnering in care delivery with other providers, including previous competitors, better managing overall utilization and caring for patients in the most appropriate setting, not necessarily acute care.”
