Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9600
ISSN: 2155-9600
Elizabeth M Bunting
East Carolina University, USA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci
Experts consider population health the next revolution in healthcare, but before data, analytics and statistical patterns give up the secrets that will improve patient outcomes, the industry must create a framework of standards, guidelines and measures that focus on individual impacts to health. Any conversation about population health starts with definitions what is health, what are suitable patient groups, what treatments do we measure, do we measure episodes or illness, what is the unit of measurement and what are the expectations. These initial steps will allow healthcare organizations and systems develop and personalize the revolutionary prevention, diagnosis and treatment programs that will allow for improved patient care and help prevent further cost explosion. A results-based population health model is a first step to reforming treatment and payer models and incorporates new variables such as community and environmental factors and social determinants. It also sets the premise that by using digital technologies and expanded data sets to stratify, follow, treat and engage sub-populations, providers will be able to influence improved patient health outcomes and achieve a high value-for- cost ratio at the N of 1.