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Pathways to Population Health 

Objective(s): To make practical, meaningful, and sustainable advances in population health

 
Timeline: July 2018 - ongoing 
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Project Coordinator: Beth Roszatycki (b.roszatycki@mihia.org), Beth Pomranky (b.pomranky@mihia.org) 
 

Pathways to Population Health (P2PH) is the result of collaboration amongst hundreds of organizations and change agents united by a common purpose: to leverage shared assets and unique strengths to help health care organizations accelerate their individual and collective population health improvement efforts.

P2PH is the product of collaboration among five organizations: American Hospital Association/Health Research and Educational Trust, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Public Health Institute, and Stakeholder Health. They are honored to be joined by a number of organizations serving as Pioneer Sponsors of the P2PH movement, leading the way to spread the word and engage others in this movement.

MiHIA is proud to be 1 of 28 P2PH Pioneer Sponsors.

LEARN

LEARN

  • Understand the key concepts and terms that are foundational for the journey to population health.
  • Explore four portfolios of work that health care organizations can do to improve health, well-being, and equity.
  • Identify the levers that can be used to accelerate your progress within and across portfolios.
ACT

ACT

  • Celebrate where you are on your population health journey and evaluate your balance across the four portfolios.
  • Determine what actions can accelerate your organizational population health improvement efforts.
IMPROVE

IMPROVE

  • Access a curated set of tools and resources to support and accelerate your progress.
  • Create an action plan to guide your organization’s path forward.
  • Join health care change agents from across the country to share and improve together.
Contact P2PH Project Co-Coordinator, Beth P., at (b.pomranky@mihia.org) to get started!
 
Your first step will be to complete the Pathways to Population health Compass Tool. The Compass is a tool to help you catalogue your current population health efforts as well as identify opportunities to make practical, meaningful, and sustainable advances in population health.

The Compass is ideally suited for individuals or teams with agency to advance population health improvement efforts within their organization. It takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. It helps you see the balance of your current activities within and across portfolios, and identify areas you may wish to focus on to accelerate your population health improvement efforts. We recommend using the Compass quarterly to assess your progress over time.

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Significance

In the last decade, the health care sector has made great strides on the journey to achieving the Triple Aim the simultaneous pursuit of improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. While health care leaders increasingly recognize the opportunity to improve the health of the communities they serve, the pathways to do so remain the roads less traveled. In the words of one CEO, “I’m on the bus for population health; in fact, I’m driving the bus. But I need help shifting my core business — all of which focuses on sick care — to focus on health and well-being. I need a roadmap to help me know how to do that.”

“Pathways to Population Health: An Invitation to Health Care Change Agents” is intended to support health care professionals in identifying opportunities for their organizations to make practical, meaningful, and sustainable advancements in improving the health and well-being of the patients and communities they serve. This resource is the product of a collaboration among five partner organizations: American Hospital Association/Health Research & Educational Trust, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Public Health Institute, and Stakeholder Health. Together, we pooled our collective assets and expertise in service of helping health care organizations accelerate their individual and collective population health improvement efforts. With generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pathways to Population Health is committed to providing a clearer and more coherent understanding of what it means for health care organizations to be on the journey toward population health. This collaboration is facilitated by 100 Million Healthier Lives, a movement of change agents working to transform the way we think and act to create health, well-being, and equity.

Read More in the Pathways to Population Health Framework

Goals and Key Strategies

GOAL 1: [Learn.] Learn and chart the paths towards progress in population health through four interconnected portfolios representing the comprehensive scope of what is needed to improve the health and well-being of populations and communities.  
  • Key Strategy 1.1 - Participate in P2PH monthly learning lab webinar series and bi-monthly Pioneer Sponsor calls
  • Key Strategy 1.2 - P2PH overview presentations delivered to Quadruple Aim Leadership Committee, Population Health Team
  • Key Strategy 1.3 - Create landing P2PH page on MiHIA Health Dashboard; Develop FAQ 
STATUS: In Progress - 
 
GOAL 2: [Act.] Support organizations in seeing the balance of their current activities within and across portfolios, and identify areas they may wish to focus on to accelerate population health improvement efforts.
  • Key Strategy 2.1 - Facilitate P2PH overview webinar presentation delivered to healthcare systems; THRIVE network; Promote at GLBR Symposium and Annual Health Conference
  • Key Strategy 2.2 - Distribute assessment tool survey, request MiHIA partners complete by (survey to be completed bi-annually: May & November)
STATUS: In Progress - 
  
GOAL 3: [Improve.] By providing a clearer and more coherent understanding of what it means for health care organizations to be on the journey to population health, a method to assess where an organization stands currently, and a curated set of tools and resources to move ahead, MiHIA can have a solid foundation to support regional organization’s population health improvement efforts.
  • Key Strategy 3.1 - Collect regional results; determine what portfolios can accelerate regional population health improvement efforts; Report regional results to Quadruple Aim Leadership Committee and Population Health Team
  • Key Strategy 3.2 - Implement regional action-sharing plan; resource sharing
  • Key Strategy 3.3 - Re-distribute assessment tool survey, request MiHIA partners complete by 05/31/2018 (survey to be completed bi-annually: May & Nov)
STATUS: Not Started - Efforts will begin following the completion of Goal 2 activities 

Performance Measures

Tools and Resources

Michigan Health Improvement Alliance