Population health management in health care organizations [electronic resource] / edited by Ann Scheck Mcalearney, Jennifer L. Hefner, Timothy R. Huerta.

Strategic re-design of team-based patient-focused healthcare services / Denise C. Tahara, Richard P. Green -- Community-level sociodemographic characteristics and patient-centered medical home / Larry R. Hearld, Kristine R. Hearld, Tory H. Hogan -- Engaging the healthcare team through operations councils : strategies to improve population health from within / Susan Moffatt-Bruce ... [et al.] -- Using teams to implement personalized health care across a multi-site breast cancer network / Sarah Lewis ... [et al.] -- A business planning model to identify new safety net clinic locations / James Langabeer II ... [et al.] -- Answering the call for integrating population health : insights from health system executives / Erik Carlton -- Population health management in integrated physical and mental health care / Cynthia J. Sieck, Thomas Wickizer, Laurel Geist -- Population, community and public health : measuring the benefits / Jason S. Turner, Connie Evashwick -- The evolving model of health care in the United States : system change is not enough / Randell Wexler -- Payment models to support population health management / Timothy R. Huerta, Jennifer L. Hefner, Ann Scheck McAlearney.

The mission of healthcare organizations has undergone a remarkable transformation from curing disease to caring for the well-being of populations. While health care policy has explored this domain before, notably in Health Maintenance Organizations, the current efforts to create Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent a broader effort to move organizational responsibilities towards population health and care management. Volume 16 of AHCM presents papers that explore this topic across various levels of the healthcare system and employing multiple research designs including case studies, theoretical pieces, secondary data analyses, survey research and qualitative methodologies. Aspects of health care organization discussed in this volume include the PCMH, ACOs, integration with the public health and mental health systems, hospital-physician alignment, and resource planning. Population health management is presented as a factor driving these organizational changes and as a mechanism to facilitate this change.

Print version record