Population Health Management

Overview

Population Health Management (POP Health Management) is new 11.2 functionality and relates to HMP items. POP Health Management allows patients to be clinically tracked and placed into groups for management (i.e. males over 50 who haven’t had a colonoscopy). This tool exists in the VTB and can be added as a menu item from within TWAdmin. The functionality allows users to search patient populations, generate a query based on a patient population, and create or edit action sets (i.e. women over 40 who need an annual mammogram can have Health Management Reminders in their chart). From within these functions the user can refine searches by filtering to conduct a narrow, comprehensive search of their patient population. It is important to know that Population Health Management runs through the event bus and can update data within the data base; therefore, users should be utilizing this functionality during patient off hours at least during the initial stages after implementing the Upgrade, as it may cause performance issues.

This functionality provides the ability to:

) Capture all patients from a population group (including those who are non-compliant or have otherwise missed health management items. ) Identifies patients who could apply for Disease Management programs (i.e. females under the age of 18 with a BMI over 28). ) Identify patients with specific high needs for chronic conditions to effectively monitor and treat the condition. ) Improve quality of care and consistency across populations by defining patient health actions to each patient who meets the criteria (i.e. females over 12 can be offered the Gardasil Immunization, but are not required to receive it. ) Can alert patients automatically to schedule health management appointments.

Additional Information

Population Health Patient Communication Text Template Examples