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I’d like to start doing an intermittent series of posts about how PHM is being implemented around the world. I think one can get tunnel vision focusing too much on how things work in their own backyard, so I figured it might be productive to zoom out a bit. PHM has so many moving parts […]

This week I attended the virtual Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCP-LAN) Summit. For those who don’t know, the HCP-LAN, or “LAN” for short, is, in their own words, “an active group of public and private health care leaders dedicated to providing thought leadership, strategic direction, and ongoing support to accelerate our care […]

Over the past two years or so, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has placed increasing importance on a program they’re in the process of developing which is collectively called MIPS Value Pathways, or MVPs. MVPs are seen by some as the next step in the process of incentivizing physicians and everyone else […]

I’ve been reading quite a bit about population health management (PHM) lately since the concept seems to be taking on increasing importance in medicine. PHM has been around for decades, but only now is it catching everyone’s attention, particularly in light of COVID which has laid bare the serious flaws with the U.S. medical system. […]

I’ve been reading about a concept that’s been around for a while but I’m only now becoming aware of: narrative medicine. It has interesting connections to population health management, and places a premium on building empathy between physicians and patients in this era of hyper-short interactions. According to an article on the Association of American […]

I’m currently taking a great Coursera class on population health management (PHM) called “Assessing and Improving Community Health.” I find PHM to be a very interesting area. Its shares many similarities with the more well-known concept of public health, but there are also some differences. The teacher does a fantastic job of navigating the intricacies […]