Population health is here, but can the care delivery system keep up?

Healthcare IT News: CHICAGO — The healthcare industry is on the cusp of having actionable data that clinicians and executives for the first time can use to gain insights and ultimately apply to individual payments.

“We’re finally starting to collect the data we need for process improvement and quality improvement,” Michael Dulin, MD, director of the Academy of Population Health at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. “But the care model itself is still behind and that to me is what population health is – how do we improve the delivery of care?”

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