Provider-Led Population Health Management: Key Strategies for Healthcare in the Cognitive Era

Provider-Led Population Health Management: Key Healthcare Strategies in the Cognitive Era, Second Edition draws connections among the new care-delivery models, the components of population health management, and the types of health IT that are required to support those components. The key concept that ties all of this together is that PHM requires a high degree of automation to reach everyone in a population, engage those patients in self-care, and maximize the chance that they will receive the proper preventive, chronic, and acute care. While this book is intended for healthcare executives and policy experts, anyone who is interested in health care can learn something from its exploration of the major issues that are stirring health care today. In the end, the momentous changes going on in health care will affect us all.

Richard Hodach, MD, MPH, PhD, is Vice President, IBM Watson Health, previously serving as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Clinical Product Strategy at Phytel, now part of IBM Watson Health. Dr. Hodach has long been recognized as a leader of population health management strategies. He is responsible for providing strategic direction and clinical expertise for the development of Phytel's solutions. Dr. Hodach is a regular contributor to prestigious peer]review journals such as The American Journal of Managed Care, The Journal of Population Health Management, hfm (published by the Healthcare Financial Management Association), The Group Practice Journal, and more. He was instrumental in the CMS Innovation Award of a $20.75 million grant which Phytel, VHA Inc., and TransforMED received from The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). In addition to his leadership position at Phytel, Dr. Hodach also serves on the board of directors of the American College of Medical Quality. Before joining Phytel, he held senior leadership positions at Matria Healthcare and Accordant, and co]founded MED.I.A. Dr. Hodach has a Ph.D. in Pathology and an M.D. with Board Certification in Neurology and Electrodiagnosis, as well as a Master's Degree in Public Health.

Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, is Global Director, Healthcare Transformation at IBM, and President of the Patient]Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Dr. Grundy is known as the "godfather" of the patient]centered medical home. An active social entrepreneur and speaker on global healthcare transformation, he concentrates his efforts on driving comprehensive, linked, and integrated healthcare. Dr. Grundy's work has been covered by The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Health Affairs, The Economist, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other newspapers, radio, and television stations across the U.S. He is a healthcare ambassador for the nation of Denmark and adjunct professor at the University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Grundy is a member of National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, director of the ACGME, and member of the national advisory board of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education, Mayo Clinic Center for Connected Care. He is a retired senior diplomat with the rank of Minister Consular U.S. State Department. Dr. Grundy graduated as valedictorian from the Southern California College, earned an M.D. from the University of California–San Francisco Medical School, and received a Masters of Public Health from the University of California–Berkeley.

Anil Jain, MD, FACP, is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, IBM Watson Health, previously serving as Chief Medical Officer of Explorys FOR SCREEN VIEWING IN BPA ONLY(now part of IBM Watson Health), formed in 2009 based on innovations that he developed while at the Cleveland Clinic. In this role, Dr. Jain directs the informatics and analytics innovations, product management, and software development, as well as leading the life sciences business unit. In addition to serving on state and national committees focused on driving quality and research through health IT, he has authored more than 100 publications and abstracts and has delivered numerous talks on the benefits of sustainable health IT innovation, clinical informatics, and big data analytics. Dr. Jain also continues to practice and teach medicine part]time in the Department of Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic and had previously served as an Attending Staff and Senior Executive Director of IT. He is a former leader at Better Health Greater Cleveland and had served as co]Director of Informatics of Case Western School of Medicine's CTSA. Dr. Jain is an active member of the Health Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and is a Fellow of the American College of Medicine (ACP), and is also a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). He received a degree in Biomedical Engineering and a degree in Medicine from Northwestern University prior to his post]graduate training in Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

Michael Weiner, DO, MSM, MSIST, is Chief Medical Information Officer at IBM. Prior to his current position with IBM, Dr. Weiner served as the Chief Medical Information Officer and Director of Clinical Informatics for the DoD VA Interagency Program Office, where he was responsible for creating a unified Interagency Electronic Health Record for more than 125,000 providers and 18 million beneficiaries worldwide. He is an active member of the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association, and is a former NASA Space Shuttle takeoff and landing physician. Dr. Weiner serves on the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Alumni Board and the board of the American Medical Informatics Association, as well as having served on the Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator Health Information IT Policy Committee, helping create Meaningful Use Stage 1. He has received numerous awards from the President of the United States, for his service in the Navy, including two Meritorious Service Medals, and two Air Medals. Dr. Weiner is an adjunct professor of Health Information Technology at the George Washington University and is one of only a few physicians ever to have been certified as a Chief Information Officer by the U.S. General Services Administration. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Weiner is a board-certified practicing physician in Internal Medicine, and holds a Master's degree in Management and a Master's degree in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University.