The Population Health Management Initiative is a California collaboration of the Department of Health Care Services, Kaiser Permanente and Community Health Centers (CHCs). We’re supporting a cohort of 32 CHCs, which serve 1.1 million people, to improve their population health management capabilities and align with Medi-Cal policy and payment reform initiatives.
We’ll be continuously offering resources including guides, tools, and best practices around expanding specific population health management capabilities. These resources support anyone interested in population health improvement for providers and practices in the Medi-Cal delivery system.
We are working with Community Health Centers across the state to collaboratively design population health management strategies that work for them and the patients they serve. We are aiming to advance Community Health Center capabilities in population health management that address people, process, and technology.
Improve quality of care and equitable health outcomes of people served by CHCs
Enhance access through team-based care and care redesign at CHCs
Improve CHC patient engagement and experience of care
Improve CHC technology enablement to optimize population health capabilities
The PHMI Platform is an opt-in technology solution that enables CHCs to improve care quality and equitable health outcomes, and is meant to work in concert with other Health Information Technology solutions (e.g., EHR, ...
It was a busy summer, with two PHMI Regional Learning Sessions held in Santa Rosa and Burbank, respectively. Learning sessions are designed to build a stronger sense of community amongst peers working on PHMI regionally and discuss promising practices and emerging challenges within their population health management journeys.
<...PHMI’s goal is to improve quality of care and equitable health outcomes of people served by CHCs. The principles of the Initiative are centered on advancing CHCs’ capabilities in population health management (PHM). One of those primary capabilities is empanelment, which is designating groups of patients to be ...