Three Critical Mistakes Obstruct Population Health Success

Healthcare organizations increasingly turn to population health to deliver higher-quality care and curb today’s unsustainable healthcare spending, projected to reach $6 trillion by 2027. The industry has recognized population health as a remedy to these astronomical costs and path to improved care, allowing healthcare providers to identify their most impactable patients, apply the best intervention, and improve health and outcomes across the patients they serve. 

Despite its promise, population health is a work in progress for many organizations due to the complexity of identifying impactable populations across different contract types, defining and implementing interventions, and measuring those interventions’ success. These barriers to success and a lack of preparedness have led to more than a quarter of ACOs dropping out of ACO contract participation.