HCM 621 - Population Health

With Health Reform now a national policy, the entire industry is facing a paradigm shift in the need for population health strategies and the adoption of a new cultural paradigm. These new strategies embrace population health management techniques beyond the walls of our institutions and traditional practice settings, advocating preventive services and comprehensive quality clinical care as an imperative. Population Health offers an educational foundation for both clinical practitioners and institutional professionals on the genesis and growth of this important topic. The emphasis will be on the expanded responsibility of physicians and institutions, in cooperation and or joint ventures, adopting a risk relationship with payers and the broader community including public health issues. Achieving substantive improvement in the wellness of a population in anticipation of performance based reimbursement models in an ethical environment is at the core of this course. There will be introductions to statistical techniques and methodologies for the evaluation of health care and epidemiological concerns and research.
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3 Credits