What is population health management and how does integrating this with an on-site clinic enhance outcomes?
As opposed to the traditional medical model of reactive, sick-based care, population health management is a proactive approach including the evaluation, assessment, and use of evidence-based interventions to improve the health and financial outcomes of a defined population. This includes a focus on education, health promotion, lifestyle management, disease/care management, care delivery, and incentive design. While an on-site clinic can offer employers value just by itself with lowered costs for similar services and productivity savings from reduced absenteeism and presenteeism, pairing an on-site clinic with a population health management program is transformative, yielding improvements in overall health with lowered direct and indirect healthcare costs.
