Now is the Perfect Time to Advance Population Health

Funding and regulation are leading indicators of where healthcare is headed.  Private equity is pointing in the direction of innovative services that drive population health outcomes. This can be seen as private equity funding flows into out-patient behavioral health, specialty pharmacy, telehealth platforms, home health services, remote monitoring services, and data integration technology. Not only do all these technologies and services drive population health outcomes, but many of them have been traditionally ignored by health systems because organizations couldn’t figure out how these opportunities could be monetized. The enthusiasm private equity firms have shown in taking on the initial financial risk of supporting new technology enables health systems to take advantage of healthcare innovation that was previously stifled by a lack of funding.

As the market moves to support a population health future, we must also consider how we can utilize these new innovations to bolster care management programs.