Population Health Management: Key Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of the Global Health Emergency

Population health management requires a confluence of intensive collaboration, advanced analytics, next-gen technologies and various other components that makes it challenging for most of the healthcare organizations. This is even more difficult in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has shook the world and has created a ripple effect on especially the healthcare ecosystem.

There has been a remarkable shift in the screening behaviors of healthcare consumers across the globe. Consider the fact that there has been a steep decline of a staggering 94% in cancer screenings in the U.S in 2020

Telehealth solutions during the pandemic have played a significant role by bridging the Patient-Provider gap, while seamlessly accelerating collaboration and improving outcomes at scale. However, there has been a remarkable shift in the screening behaviors of healthcare consumers across the globe. Consider the fact that there has been a steep decline of a staggering 94% in cancer screenings in the U.S in 2020.

A Strategic Approach to Population Health Management

Population Health Management during a global pandemic is not an easy feat and requires a new and innovative approach. This is also due to the massive volumes of structured and unstructured data generated by Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). Reports suggest that the economically backward communities are the most impacted when compared to their affluent peers during the pandemic.

Population Health Management Segmentation Framework

Segments Reflecting Patient’s COVID-19 History	Current COVID-19 Risk Factors	Segments Reflecting Non COVID-19 Needs	Telehealth Feasibility
No documented disease AcuteAsymptomatic or mild Acutemoderate Acute-severe Recovered-No sequelae Recovered with sequelae	Prevalence in community Individual pre-existing risk factors Work-related risk Reported known contact exposure Social and racial disparities	Low need/healthy Child/maternal monitoring Moderate/chronic condition Complex/serious conditions Special socio behavioral needs	Feasibility of providing service virtually Patient acceptability and technological access Clinicians technological access/security

Healthcare Applications and Uses

Low need/healthy
Child/maternal monitoring
Moderate/chronic condition
Complex/serious conditions
Special socio behavioral needs

COVID-19 Solution Framework

This framework outlines an ideal approach to adapting, expanding, and sharing technologies and expertise to help health systems, prepare, respond and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and build a crisis-ready sustainable future.

INFRASTRUCTURE	Curated COVID-19 codes and value sets built into the workflows to save time and improve data quality and accuracy
	National data sets and national registry added to the system allows improved comparative analytics capabilities across 80+ million records
CLINICAL MPROVEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY	COVID-19 disease registries added to workflow to value and augment population health analyses and reporting
	New public health content within the system to include COVID-19 triggers that allows enhanced bio-surveillance monitoring and analytics
	Infection-related analytics accelerators enhance event and infection detection, prevention and improvement capabilities
	Clinical improvement accelerators and care management workflow tools that integrate a growing knowledgebase machine learning, and closed-loop analytics to identify and better manage patients at risk for poor outcomes
	Capacity planning tool enables forecasting and management of local COVID19 system demand
	Patient and staff tracker traces locations and interactions of confirmed/suspected cases
OPERATIONAL	Analytics uses fast and easy data, registries and dashboard capabilities
	Staff augmentation provides analytics, data science and domain expertise to bridge gaps
	Reporting capabilities that report and reduce administrative burden
FINANCIAL	Financial impact recovery analytics tools for elective surgery, ambulatory and revenue cycle launch

The Significance of Patient Communication

Seamless patient communication and collaboration are amongst the top-notch ways of staying on top of the patient journey. At SolvEdge, our care coordination solutions are exclusively designed to facilitate frictionless collaboration between the key stakeholders involved in the patient journey. Our secure and HIPAA-compliant text messaging platforms ensure that the right communication is made between patients and physicians at the right time, enabling actionable insights and timely interventions that foster better outcomes.

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To learn more about how SolvEdge’s Patient engagement solutions can help in Population Health Management, in the wake of the global pandemic, talk to our team