Category: Accountable Care
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Population Health.What’s the point of it all – Ten points
This is, I hope, the last in a series of blogs on population health. This one will try to bring it all together to answer the question of “what’s the point”. Previous blogs in this series are here: 1.Population health / public health, what’s in a name – effort to try to distinguish. We couldn’t […]
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Accountable care – Getting the narrative straight with clinicians. 8 issues
Accountable care – Getting the narrative straight with clinicians. 8 issues Earlier I tried to dispel some of the less helpful narrative that’s around the concept of Accountable Care. Here is the follow up, around getting the narrative straight. It’s based in some year old reflection that still hold true. A year ago I went […]
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Accountable care – correcting some of the unhelpful narrative.
There are many helpful and unhelpful commentaries around about the concept of accountable care. This one by Roger Steer seems to be being used a lot by the detractors of accountable care. It’s quite good, but needs careful interpretation. As does this article by Alyson Pollock and Peter Roderick. There’s a healthy lobby out there […]
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Population health, population health care, population managemen
More than 30 years ago Rose set out the importance of focusing on population factors and not just individuals. We’ve not really made good on the hypothesis yet. Population health is still all the rage, if not properly defined. I’ve had a few gos at defining. Firstly trying to distinguish “public health” and “population health”. […]
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ACO indicator metrics volume 4
Ding ding, seconds out….. round 4 I’ve had a few goes at the question of what should our outcome framework look like for our ACP, ACS, ACxxxx. See the references. Here’s next instalment. In short note format. 1) There’s not single pithy answer. I know you know that The task = probably impossible…. But there […]
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The role of Directors of Public Health in STP. 5 thoughts.
This is niche, and mainly for DPH types. Been thinking a lot re the q of what is the role of a DPH in the STP land.here are some thoughts – as always thanks to others who helped develop these thoughts. It’s not quite finished yet, and I’d welcome views. I’ll be clear this isn’t about […]
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