Dr. Dennis R. Delisle
Director of Operations and Support, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
“Accountability for the health and utilization of health care services of a defined population of individuals across the care continuum, from preventative to acute to post-acute settings.”
Gigi DeSouki, MHA
Founder/CEO, Wellness On Wheels, Inc.
“Individual responsibility for physical, mental, spiritual and social health. When each person takes control of his or her health, it reflects on our families and society as a whole.”
Jack Friedman
CEO, Providence Health Plan
“Population health is the acknowledgement that the goal of all health system stakeholders is to do the most good for the most people at the least amount of cost. It requires a primary care centered model that incentivizes all providers to measure their clinical performance at the population level, and it requires interface between public and private institutions along with local community engagement. Population longevity and broad values around quality of life are the ultimate measures of success and performance.”
Richard J. Gilfillan, MD
President and CEO, Trinity Health
“Population health refers to addressing the health status of a defined population. A population can be defined in many different ways including demographics, clinical diagnoses, geographic location, etc. Population health management is a clinical discipline that develops, implements and continually refines operational activities that improve the measures of health status for defined populations. At Trinity Health, we measure the health status of a population using the Triple Aim of better health, better care and lower costs.”
Jim Goes
Managing Partner, Cybernos LLC
“I think of population health as an approach to develop research that addresses the needs of both the overall population of a state, country or region and the health of important sub-populations that can be differentiated by ethnicity, gender, health status or even economic status.”
David Harlow
Principal (Attorney & Consultant), The Harlow Group LLC
“’Population health’ is both a means and an end. The goal is to improve the collective health status of the population at large in a given geographic area. That goal can only be accomplished through a combination of (1) behavior change, which has to be promoted in a tailored manner, using an array of appropriate tools — not only through traditional health care channels — to different subsets of the population (chronically-ill elders, new moms, engaged patients, millenials, baby-boomer weekend warriors, etc.), and (2) evidence-based medicine focused both on prevention and treatment of injury and disease and on improving function and happiness for the individuals who make up the population.”
Jay Henry
Chairman & CEO, The James Marshall Group
“The overall mental and physical state of health for a defined group of people.”
Dr. Patrick Herson
President, Fairview Medical Group
“Population health is an approach to improving outcomes of a defined population. We have defined outcomes as the Triple Aim — cost, quality and experience.”
Jay Higgins
Senior Director of Network Strategy and Surgical Program Development, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Population health is keeping people healthy in a coordinated fashion for better clinical outcomes at a lower cost. It is a ‘proactive’ solution (with personalized care and a focus on wellness) in an industry that has thrived on being ‘reactive’ (delays in treatment resulting in sicker patients, ordering unnecessary tests and sending patients to emergency departments due to primary care access challenges).”
Ryan Jensen
CEO, The Memorial Hospital of Salem County
“Population health signifies the movement from a silo-focused delivery of medicine to a communal effort with the purpose of improving the overall health outcomes of a population.”
