Saturday, February 9, 2019
This HND article examines some of the problems with population health and conventional demographics, and then highlights valuegraphics as a way of fixing them.
In many cases, since population health is often used to evaluate the performance of accountable care organizations. As such, improvements seen in the aggregate are not reflected in quite the same way in individual patients. In fact, these ACOs, highly touted within Obamacare to lower Medicare costs, have actually done just the opposite.
Likewise, conventional demographics, whereby cohorts are simplistically arranged by age group, are not at all predictive of behavior within these groups. Instead, valuegraphics, in which value-based profiles are included within these age cohorts is far more predictive of behavior.
Read the complete article.
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