One of the main goals of efforts to improve the quality of health care in the U.S. is to reduce variation in care, where some patients are treated optimally while others miss out on the best of medicine. This is a key driver behind the focus on population health, which in recent decades has spawned the standards of care used in practice throughout clinics and hospitals today. Measurable improvements have been made, but in 2015, we can do better, argues Colin Hill, CEO, chairman and co-founder of GNS Healthcare.
“Population is the total of individuals that make up a whole, but where is the individual in population?” Hill asked attendees at Institute 2015, the annual gathering of America’s Health Insurance Plans. “I’ll tell you where, the individual is missing,” he said.
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