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Population Health Perils
Current efforts toward population health management are no more than experiments. Some health systems and practitioners will be winners and others will be losers—and it's too early to know for sure which will be which.
The term population health is ill-understood and leads to grave mis-interpretations. Witness the confusing missives from the federal government - where it is a magic phrase used to justify that the program is on the right track. Professor Dave Kindig, (U of Wisconsin) in his blog has tried to shed some light on this confusing phrase. It'll begreat if every one using the phrase defines the precise meaning and context.