Is Population Health Management past its sell by date? Simon Swift, MD Methods Analytics, and Richard Oakley, Director of Data Science & AI at Methods Analytics, discuss the importance of including citizens in the data conversation
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here are many fashions around healthcare at the moment. Many of them focus on smart services to provide personalised care, whether
they are clinical devices informing long term condition management or smart devices to provide health information for individuals. And as healthcare moves
out of formal settings and into homes, we need to look at how we identify individual health risks and how best to deliver this information to both citizens and health care professionals. There are hundreds of apps and services out there collecting data, but it’s often only used for the purposes of the app itself, rather than for a collective good. If the data is collated and aggregated then the bigger picture emerges, one that can be used for the benefit of individuals and systems. To a certain extent, I’m talking about what we call population health, because all roads seem to lead there. In my world of data analytics, we can aggregate
