WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) September 23, 2014

The Population Health Alliance, the leader in advancing the principles of population health, today announced October’s lineup of webinar presenters for the Population Health Management Virtual Brown Bag Series: Predilytics and HealthSciences Institute, on October 2 and 16, respectively.

This FREE webinar series features PHA member organizations presenting on the core components of the Population Health Management (PHM) framework and how they relate to their work and underpin their research in areas of identification, assessment, stratification, engagement, interventions, and evaluation.

On October 2, Christopher Coloian, President and CEO of Predilytics, will present a webinar titled Improving population health value through advanced analytics that will discuss how consumer preferences, engagement, and conditions can be derived from data elements, spanning consumer, demographic, financial, and clinical sources. The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 2, at Noon Eastern Time.

“As an industry, we can deliver improved population impact through the use of more expansive data and computer science,” said Coloian. “Today at Predilytics, we are leveraging information about consumer behavior, clinical data including unstructured information from notes, and advanced analytics, to reveal insights to improve consumer engagement, quality of care, and the coordination of care resources. The result is improved individual health status and maximum health improvement for the population.”

Sponsored by the HealthSciences Institute, on October 16, Susan W. Butterworth, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University will present the webinar Engagement in Population Health Management (PHM): A Different Perspective.

Dr. Butterworth will go in depth into the data from real-world PHM settings to show how developing and measuring the proficiency of PHM practitioners in an evidence-based health coaching approach and continuously measuring and managing the fidelity of the program services to the approach, may be among the most effective and affordable strategies to both improve engagement rates, support healthy behavior, and ultimately improve clinical and cost outcomes. The webinar is taking place on Thursday, October 16, at Noon Eastern Time.

“One of our biggest missed opportunities in PHM is the failure to invest in the type of best practice skill-building, performance management and quality improvement approaches that many of our own customers use in their industries,” said Blake Andersen, Ph.D., CEO of HealthSciences Institute. “When we do it right, we can achieve not just incremental change, but transformative change in engagement rates–on the level of four-fold–in rigorous evaluations. This isn’t a theory it’s a fact.”

The webinars are FREE to attend and registration and detailed information for both webinars is available here: http://populationhealthalliance.org/webinars/phm-virtual-brown-bag-series.html

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About the Population Health Alliance

The Population Health Alliance (PHA) is a global trade association of the population health industry. Its more than 80 members represent stakeholders from across the healthcare delivery system that seek to improve health outcomes, optimize medical and administrative spend, and drive affordability. Through its robust advocacy, research and education initiatives, the PHA offers members a forum to advance shared learning and applied research to further innovation and establish best practices in the population health field. Visit http://www.populationhealthalliance.org to learn and get ready to attend the PHA Forum 2014, in Scottsdale, Arizona on December 10-12, 2014.

About HealthSciences Institute

Since 2003, HealthSciences Institute’s award-winning Chronic Care Professional (CCP) learning and certification program remains the only nationally recognized health coaching and chronic care training program linked with better patient and costs in organization evaluations and peer-reviewed studies. CCP has been widely adopted by states, provinces, health plans and health systems and associations. CCP is recommended or required for staff at over 100 health plans and public and private health care organizations. Over 5,000 have attained CCP certification. For more information on DPS Health, visit http://www.healthsciences.org/.

About Predilytics

Predilytics is a healthcare information technology and advanced analytic solutions company, the first to commercially employ in healthcare the analytic techniques and processes that have demonstrated long-term success in such demanding industry sectors as financial services and consumer products.

Predilytics applies patented, machine-learning analytic tools to transform our clients’ structured and unstructured data, along with external data sources, into actionable insights. These insights point the way for healthcare organizations to more deeply understand consumer behavior, optimize and precisely target care delivery and improve population health. Predilytics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered outside Boston in Burlington, MA. For more information visit http://www.predilytics.com.






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