Population Health Management

A Population Health Management (PHM) approach to the early detection of liver disease

31/05/202306/05/2022 by Nigel Slone

Chronic Liver Disease (CLD) is an ignored epidemic.
This blog describes how a consortium of clinicians, academics, and industry – including Sollis – have come together to tackle this epidemic head on.
Funded by the UK Governments Innovate UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, we describe how a Population Health Management (PHM) approach has been adopted to deliver community-based interventions that support the early detection of liver disease.
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Lessons from the Population Health Management (PHM) Front Line

31/05/202321/02/2022 by Nigel Slone

Leadership and the case for change The starting point of this PHM story was consensus at senior leadership level that there was a powerful case for change. Time was spent crafting a business case for change around which the multi-disciplinary leadership team could coalesce and sign-up to. The debate started with a hypothesis. This particular … Read more

Population Health Management: Its Personal

31/05/202301/11/2021 by Nigel Slone

A couple of weeks ago – despite the best efforts of a global pandemic – myself and the family managed to escape to the south coast of Spain.
It was a time to relax, reflect and empty one’s thoughts of anything and anyone related to work. The latter task proved just as challenging as I knew it would be. Read More…

Bridging the divide between population health analytics and the care management workforce

31/05/202320/07/2021 by Nigel Slone

In the field of Population Health Management, it is increasingly understood that when thinking about patients we need to consider the whole person and not just the disease. Patients are not defined by their clinical condition alone Read More…

Health Inequalities and Inequity: Using data to address issues of Parity of Esteem

31/05/202317/06/2021 by Nigel Slone

It is easy to write on a subject about which you are passionate; but I take the view that we should be judged on actions not just words. Its fine to rage against the injustices of the world, but if you aren’t part of the solution then you may very well be part of the problem. Read More…

Integrated Care Systems and the Demon of Health Inequity

31/05/202308/06/2021 by Nigel Slone

When trying to make sense of the “Why” of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) then a good starting place might be here .. Read More…

Seven Quick Wins – 7

01/06/202317/02/2021 by Nigel Slone

In conjunction with our long term collaborators Johns Hopkins Healthcare, we have devised seven ‘quick wins’ for the delivery of population health analytics that supports Population Health Management strategies.

The seventh of these quick wins is….

#7 Address variation within groups with similar degrees of morbidity burden Read More…

Seven Quick Wins – 6

01/06/202311/02/2021 by Nigel Slone

The sixth of these quick wins is….

#6 Identify new opportunities using casemix-adjusted comparative analysis Read More…