Population Health Management: The Intersection of Concept and Reality

摘要

The feature articles in this issue of Frontiers offer different philosophies and approaches to meeting the Triple Aim of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Zenty, Bieber, and Hammack document a local and granular means of creating targeted accountable care organizations (ACOs) to make Triple Aim inroads toward ensuring the health of the discrete populations. Their "build on success" approach offers practical insights on developing mission, governance, and analytics to guide the creation of clinically oriented population health programs, in contrast to the "total population health" ambitions of Kindig and Isham.