Chapter 11: The Essential Operational Components

1. What is the greatest determinant of life expectancy?
2. What are the nonclinical determinants that impact healthcare?
3. What is the challenge for healthcare leaders?
4. What is the challenge with a one size fits all approach to healthcare?
5. Population health represents the redistribution or rationalization of resources to reduce both the risk and cost of care for those with the greatest_____________ greatest______________, and greatest_____________ and to reduce the allocation of resources to healthy individuals who, through disruptive innovation and technology can be empowered to self-manage their care while they remain both low _____________ and low-____________.
6. What are the five phases for contracting for population health services?
7. What are the four generic principles that must be taken into account whenever building an integrated healthcare network?
8. What are the challenges obstructing the goal of working toward a unified IT platform to enable real-time, shared data?
9. What are the essential attributes of data and information?
10. What types of data are important for systems to realize the potential of the population health model?
11. What are the five elements of population health infrastructure essential to providing comprehensive services to sub-populations?
12. Why if fee-for-service reimbursement incompatible with a fully operative population health program?
13. When a healthcare system successfully implements a population health program, what costly events decrease?
14. What are the alternative payment models which promote lower costs, more standardized care and adherence to quality metrics yet are in effect, fee-for service models with a lower cost structure?
15. The transition to a strategic plan aligning transformation of the clinical care model with the business model so that a sustainable margin can be made includes the following steps:

Chapter 13: The Global Healthcare Manager

1. What are the 3 components of the triple aim?
2. What are the six social determinants of health as identified by the Kaiser Family Foundation?
3. Population health concepts can be linked to which seven fields?
4. What are the overall aims of PHM?