"Big Data, PCP Engagement Aid Mount Sinai With Population Health" - Jennifer Bresnick
While the majority of healthcare organizations have at least recognized the importance of population health management, large integrated delivery systems with hundreds of locations and thousands of providers often find it difficult to drive positive changes into every corner of their vast domains. Luckily, the growing maturity of big data analytics tools is helping to forge new links between colleagues in large networks such as the Mount Sinai Health System, giving executive leaders more actionable insight into how to collaborate in pursuit of value-based care and population health. Assuming financial risk while coordinating care for patients within the New York Metro Area is particularly challenging, said Niyum Gandhi, executive vice president and chief population health officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. “The New York Metro area is traditionally very oriented towards fee-for-service,” Gandhi explained. “We have a fragmented provider market and a fragmented payer market, which is fairly unusual.” At Mount Sinai, a variety of practice transformation efforts have driven the principles of coordinated care throughout a network of around 600 primary care providers, half of whom are employed by the Icahn School of Medicine. The other half are community physicians aligned with the Mount Sinai clinically integrated network. “One of our big thrusts is to work with practices to transform every element of their care delivery model to help them achieve their population health goals,” said Gandhi.
- Niyum Gandhi, Executive Vice President, Chief Population Health Officer, Mount Sinai Health System