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As the focus of the health care delivery system continues to move toward a coordinated and accountable system, there is an increasing need for a single resource that focuses on analytics for population health. Population Health Analytics addresses that need by providing detailed information and a ""how to"" guide for achieving population health analytics. Comprehensive, current, and practical, this logically organized text builds from understanding data sources, to contextualizing data, modeling data, and gleaning insights from that data, which is a natural progression for organizations in progressing to higher levels of analytic capabilities. Furthermore, these frameworks for the population health process and analytics are grounded in an evidence base that is also aligned with theories and processes used in healthcare disciplines. A first of its kind text, Population Health Analytics, will prepare students to improve health outcomes, understand patterns of health behavior and behavior determinants, develop effective interventions, and track health and cost performance across populations. Key features: - Real world scenarios using case studies, use cases, critical thinking and discussion questions encourage readers to apply data and analytics to improve health. - Readers will learn to discern the intricacies and nuances of creating, preparing, contextualizing, tracking, and reporting data to support clinical quality and healthcare cost improvement. - Guiding principles and processes to develop a population health workforce are introduced, such as the Team Troika in Chapter 31. - Each application of healthcare data is supported with evidence, ample references, and ancillary resources - Navigate eBook Access (included with each printed text) enabling online or offline access to the text from a computer, tablet, or mobile device. ""

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Dr. Sylvia is the president of ForestVue Healthcare Solutions, providing expertise in population health analytics, strategy, systems, and program level interventions, as well as education and training. She also contributes leadership and expertise for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree nationally and as an 'Associate Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing. The focus of her leadership, practice, and academic appointments for over 15 years has been in population health management and strategy with clinical oversight; program design, development, and evaluation; and clinical analytics.She has a rich clinical background in acute and ambulatory care with experience from multiple perspectives, including academic health systems, payers, providers, and community health organizations. She has previously served as Director of Population Health Analytics at the Medical University of South Carolina and at Johns Hopkins Healthcare where she designed and implemented population health analytic infrastructure and led care management interventions. She completed her BS in Nursing at the University of Vermont; MSN/MBA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Carey School of Business; and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.' Dr. Ines Maria Vigil leads innovative healthcare business and clinical strategic initiative development, clinical practice transformation, population health, analytics and data management, informatics system integrations, care delivery, and applied econometrics for healthcare organizations across the US.Dr. Vigil has over sixteen years of leadership experience in healthcare and population health, working with providers and organizations in the areas of value-based care delivery, health care quality improvement, data analytics, informatics, and preventive and occupational medicine. Most recently, Dr. Vigil served as the Vice President of Advanced Analytics at Priority Health and is currently the CEO of IMV Healthcare Solutions.' She is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), received an MBA from the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD, and an MD from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, NM.

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