Population Health Management: Don’t Ignore Natural Inertia Driving Low-Risk Populations

Update: 2016-08-10

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By focusing chiefly on moving high-risk patients down to the low-risk band, population health management programs are in danger of missing the “natural inertia” driving low-risk patients right back into that high-risk stratum, cautions Dr. Adrian Zai, clinical director of population informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Zai describes why MGH, ranked the number one hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report,® advocates a multi-pronged approach addressing both low-risk and rising risk patients—a strategy that has improved MGH care quality and provider performance while reducing high-cost healthcare utilization.

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Population Health Management: Don’t Ignore Natural Inertia Driving Low-Risk Populations

Dr. Adrian Zai

Population Health Management: Don’t Ignore Natural Inertia Driving Low-Risk Populations