Population health represents an industry wide shift in focus. While healthcare used to be transactional and individual focused, population health emphasizes outcomes—and not just of a single patient, but of an entire population.

Some healthcare leaders have found success in establishing new ways to reach patients and inspire them to lead healthier lives, ensuring patients get the appropriate level of care, while others focus on enhancing payer cooperation. This collection of articles and resources reveals how organizations are handling the shift to population health.

• How one county in rural Maine helped pioneer the population health trend in the late 1960s
• How disparities and inequalities negatively impact population health
• Anne Arundel Medical Center's best practices to keep frequent flyers out of the hospital 
• How Children's Hospital in Milwaukee used health plan data to identify at-risk patients and test