What Is Population Health Management?

By Alice Parks, director of population health management at Network Health

The goal of population health management is to improve a group’s health outcomes by monitoring and identifying individual patients within that group.

Network Health’s population health strategy is designed to support our mission of creating healthy and strong Wisconsin communities by doing the following. • Enhancing our members’ experience • Improving the quality and engagement of clinical management • Providing proactive support to our members • Promoting continuity of care and cost effectiveness through understanding the needs of all Network Health members

The population health strategy focuses on these areas. • Keeping members healthy • Managing members with emerging risk • Patient safety or outcomes across settings • Managing multiple chronic illnesses

Each of these areas of focus offers at least one program or service available to members within the target population. This population may be based on current diagnoses, risk factors, member-identified areas of interest or other health factors.

For more information about Network Health’s Population Health Programs, email QI@networkhealth.com.