Tech optimization: Perfecting pop health IT deployments

Healthcare provider organizations across the country have been spending more time focusing on population health management. It is of utmost importance to take care of individual patients, but focusing on the health of populations, especially those with chronic conditions, can enhance care quality and cost efficiency. Information technology plays a huge role in population health. There’s no way to manually deal with the huge amounts of data generated by a pop health program, and advanced analytics are needed to glean the insights necessary to improve care delivery for populations. It’s one thing to have the technology in place to facilitate a population health management program. It’s quite another to ensure that technology is operating at peak performance-levels and tailored to the needs of individual healthcare provider organizations. Here, three population health IT experts – from Enli Health Intelligence, Epic Systems and Optum – offer some perspective and best practices for optimizing technology to help meet their pop health goals.