Personalized population healthis not about a 30,000-foot view of patient needs; it's abouthaving actionable data about an individual to deliver the rightcare at the right time in the right place. (Photo:Shutterstock)
Population health management (PHM) is gainingthe interest of employers searching for ways to improve the healthand well-being of employees at lower cost. But in order to meet the truepromise of population health, we need to make PHM meaningful toindividuals, not just groups. We need to personalize it.
When “population health” emerged as a concept in 2003, it wasdefined as “the health outcome of a group ofindividuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within thegroup.” A “group” could mean a country of people, an ethnic group,a community of cancer patients, an employer workforce or any otherkind of population. And the goal wasn't that most people in thegroup would be healthy while a few remained quite sick, but insteadthat big health disparities within the group would beeliminated.
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