Population Health Management
Overview
Population Health Management (PHM) is new 11.2 functionality and provides the ability to generate "pursuit lists" based on specific demographic or clinical criteria for a patient population. PHM allows patients to be clinically tracked and placed into groups for management (i.e. males over 50 who haven’t had a colonoscopy in the last year). Queries can be defined to create these pursuit lists from which tasks, reminders, patient lists and patient preferred method of communication can be generated to improve quality of patient care and overall disease management. Queries can be define and modified witihin the Clinical Rules Editor workspace. It is important to know that Population Health Management runs the defined query through the event bus and can update data within the database when actions are performed; therefore administrators should be utilizing this functionality during patient off hours as it may cause performance issues.
This functionality provides the ability to:
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Workflows
- High Level Workflow: Creating PHM Queries with the Clinical Rules Editor
Additional Information
Population Health Patient Communication Text Template Examples
PHM Known Issues
- After a query is active, the query does not run nightly with the ETL, even though you are able to manually run the query and return the first 500 patients. This is an Allscripts issue case and is fixed in 11.2.3 HF4 and beyond.
- Reminders created from PHM action sets are not linked to the correct diagnosis, most seem to default as linked to Health Maintenance. This issue is currently in development (as of 7/31/12) and a fix has yet to be planned out.