Deliverable 7 - Identifying Challenges to a Population Health Approach

Live Class Recording VII

February 17, 2026, 11:03PM

30m 1s

Merle Point-Johnson started transcription

Merle Point-Johnson 0:03 Final deliverable presentation. That doesn't mean that we're not going to continue to have these weekly sessions. It's just the final deliverable that we're going to be covering. We've covered each of the deliverables up to deliverable 7, which will be covered today, but we will continue to have live sessions even after today. And we'll just go back over any, any deliverable that you guys feel is necessary. Anything I can do to support your success? OK. So congratulations. Again, this is a final deliverable that we're going to be covering, but you guys have done a great job, a fantastic job. I do appreciate all of the questions and I look forward to the ongoing meetings that we will have. So our presentation goals for today are to review competencies for Deliverable 7. We're going to provide examples of each component. Of the deliverable requirements and we will articulate the requirements for Deliverable 7. We are also going to share our motivational message. So again, welcome to Deliverable Seven's presentation and this is Week 7. The competency for this module incorporates the following examining disease management models and their effect on the health of populations. health economics, apply the foundational principles of population health management to patient care, appraise multiple methods of data resources and data collection used in diverse populations, and apply analytic methodologies to diverse populations to address population health needs. Evaluate sets of health data from diverse populations using population health management principles, and finally develop a population health plan to address a health concern in the current healthcare industry. Now I've just went over each of the the this modules. Are this deliverables competencies? The reason I read those directly to you all is because I want you guys to consider the familiarity of each one of these. This is the course in this course and every course that you're going to be taking in your program. The final deliverable is a culminating deliverable. And the reason I read through each of those competencies is because those are the competencies that we have covered throughout this particular course. So there should be some level of familiarity with the competencies. So now we're looking at the culminating. Deliverable and how each of those competencies are impacted or impacts this deliverable. It brings it all together. Now this is the one deliverable in this particular course that's really independent of all of the other deliverables as you've been working through throughout the term you've been looking at. Each. Those individual deliverables, but you understood that those were interconnected. They were intertwined in a specific way. So in order for you to complete deliverable 2, you would have had to have completed deliverable one. In order to complete deliverable 3, you would have had to have completed deliverable 4. And so on. So bottom line here is this is one that's not going to be connected in that same way. So. So in healthcare, we are seeing a shift in priorities. It's a dynamic shift from reactive care to proactive care. Years ago, if you were to ask the question of is the United States the best healthcare system in the world? Most would say that in many ways we are when it comes down to. Reactive care. But what that meant is that we were not proactive in preventing diseases or preventing the spread of diseases or even preventing the worsening of a disease that an individual had. We looked at we didn't focus as much on primary care. As we did on tertiary care. So that's the the paradigm shift that we're starting to see more and more on. So examples patients determined to be at risk for hypertension. We now use evidence-based decision-making. So because of that, we see a patient whose value is above the norm where it comes down to hypertension but not consistently high. We don't rate those individuals. individuals as having hypertension, but the diagnosis then becomes pre-hypertension, meaning that this person has all of the, everything that's ripe to develop hypertension. Same thing with diabetes. The A1C numbers um are high. Out of the range that we think is normal, understand that the individual is at a greater for developing diabetes or developing hypertension. So given that right, we look at conditions as pre-diabetes or pre-hypertension and what that. does, it gives everyone an opportunity to have early intervention and to be part of the process of helping yourself to be, you know, to be comfort, you know, where you're not going to develop the disorder. So prevention becomes key. OK, so meaning that there's some things that you can take, some actions you can take now to prevent yourself from developing the disorder. Well, prevent yourself from being at higher risk of developing the disorder. And if you look at this chart, it gives you what the American Medical Association has put out in terms of what is considered pre hypertensive, OK. Now the results of that means that we can lower costs because we do know that preventing a condition will lower costs. We also know that particularly with diabetes is concerned, that is a very expensive disorder. So if we can intervene in advance of a person developing, particularly like type 2 diabetes, because we know that's a lifestyle condition, and we can get an intervention before that person develops diabetes, then we can see better outcomes. And increased health literacy. Because when an individual knows better, they do better. They tend to do better. In other words, if you know that you need to decrease your salt intake, your sodium intake, because your high your your your blood pressure numbers are reading higher than they should, then you can do some things. to to avoid going into a crisis, in other words, are being more at vulnerable, at risk. All right, so let's look at the scenario. All right. So as the healthcare paradigm shifts from treating illness towards preventing illness, providers are being challenged to adopt new models of care delivery. And So what that means is that we have, we now are looking at ways to prevent certain conditions as opposed to reacting. once an individual has been diagnosed with the condition. And we're also looking at embracing evolving concepts of value-driven reimbursement strategies. That might mean using more telehealth, using more alternative-type medicines or holistic medicines, right? Um nutrition as a means of working that into mainstream medicine so that the nutrition could be understood. If you notice now, a lot of your health insurance plans will incorporate um more of those complementary and alternative medicine ideas. Moreover, Health care providers must give increased attention to improving health care in a way that improves health outcomes across population groups for the entire nation. For example, data must be collected on populations and assessed to determine the effectiveness of of different approaches. This is really important because what that means is that we're looking at outcomes, we're looking at the data, and the data is going to tell the story. What was the outcome of using certain interventions? Did it impact certain groups more than others? So all of those things are going to be very valuable and deciding what the treatment regimen should be for individuals. All right, so you're going to be asked to read an article. The article is entitled Navigating Population Health Management Challenges. Now this article is a very brief article and I will tell you right now, you may have to instead of clicking on the link that's in the classroom because sometimes the links will break and because. External article. It is really difficult for us to know when those links may break. So in this particular instance, all you have to do is type into your Google search bar Navigating Population Health Management Challenges. Any article does come up. I just checked it out today. Any article does come up that way. So you're going to be. Reading that article in order to gain insights into some of the issues that are facing providers when they make that shift to what population health management. So again, it's a very brief article. You would have to Google search it just in the event that the link in the classroom does not work. So Google search it is just it's going to take. 2 seconds to Google search it. You can copy and paste it and put it in a new window and just click on, you know, search for it and the article does come up. All right, so make sure you're reading this article again. It's a brief article. The contents will be very helpful to you as you're completing this particular deliverable. So you want to again look this article up. Remember, this is your deliverable 7. You want to take the time. You want to follow the steps because these deliverable 7 weighs the most in terms of your overall grade for. The course. All right. So imagine that you are the new CPO for an integrated health system, and you're asked by the CEO to identify the challenges of implementing a population health approach. Remember, you guys were starting from the very beginning. You started with looking at ways. Em. A population health management approach. You looked at what disorder you wanted to focus in on. That's the first thing that you guys were thinking about through the community health needs assessment through evaluating it or assessing it. And then you decided what the community really needs, which type of, you know. Program Population Health Management program would you recommend to your organization? So you looked at data, you know what data sets were needed. You also looked at where you could retrieve the data, where you're going to get the data from. You created a data dashboard. So all of that is what goes into creating a Population Health management. Management program. So you're going to analyze these challenges. OK, so again, you're going to identify the challenges of implementing the program, a program for improving health outcomes and promoting Wellness in the United States. You're going to analyze why these challenges exist. You know, what's the reason we're facing those particular challenges? And you're going to discover research-based proposed solutions for those challenges, and you're also going to provide insights into the pros and cons of each of those solutions. Now, every time you consider a problem. Then you consider a solution. You have to remember that each solution is going to come with certain challenges in and of itself. So you're going to have to weigh the pros and cons of each solution and determine which is best. In other words, there are no perfect solutions. All right. So you're for this particular deliverable, you'll be addressing three separate components for the deliverable. The first part of it is going to be where you identify the challenge. That's your first component, identifying the challenges of developing a population health management program. OK, the second. Part of it is you're going to analyze those challenges. OK. So each of the challenges that you've identified, you want to analyze those and you're going to discover proposed solutions to those challenges. And that's where you're going to be talking about the pros and cons of those solutions or those proposed solutions. You want to identify five of the most significant challenges. So that's your number. I know I was going to get that question because it really is an important piece of the deliverable requirements. So you want to make sure you're identifying five of the most significant challenges. To implementing a population health management approach, each challenge should be a subheading. So in other words, if you identified health literacy as a challenge, then that should be a subheading. Underneath that subheading is where you're going to do your you're going to discuss that challenge, you're going to. To then discuss the pros and cons of that challenge and so forth. So each challenge again should be a subheading. So you're going to present the challenge, you're going to describe the challenge in detail and provide some history or background. Based on the credible research that you're going to be conducting in order to come up with that, if you need any particular assistance where it comes down to writing this particular deliverable, we do have some resources that are available to you in the classroom, so always use those resources. That's what they are there for. So again, identify the first part is to identify five of the most significant challenges that you find in your research to implementing a population health approach for improving health outcomes and promoting Wellness in the United States. An example might be an. inadequate technology to support sharing of information among multiple stakeholders. I just provided that as an example, right? So each challenge should be a subheader. And so that means if you're going to use inadequate technology, that should be a subheader in your paper. Present the challenge, describe the challenge, and provide some historical context based on the credible resource research that you're going to be conducting, right? So research, research, research. So what is the challenge? What is the background of that challenge and which literature supports your assertions when you describe that challenge? So you want to analyze the challenge where you explain each challenge you identified in part one, which where you're identifying a challenge and provide comprehensive discussions about each and why each has broad and far reaching implications for improving the health of population. Again, you're going to be explaining those challenges, right? You're going to have at least five challenges. So you're going to explain each of those challenges. Then you're going to discuss and part of part of your discussion will also include a rationale for why that particular challenge may have broad and. far reaching consequences or implications for improving the health of US populations. You're going to use data and scholarly research to support your thinking and to bolster your discussion. So here's a breakdown again. So as you're explaining each of those challenges that you identified in part one to provide a comprehensive discussion about why each one has a broad and far reaching implication for improving with you the health of US population. So if you're using inadequate technology as one of your challenges, right, you know, and in this case we're saying because it does, it does prevent the adequate sharing of information amongst multiple stakeholders, so. Why is technology even important to begin with? And what's the implications of not having adequate technology? So that's going to be a part of this particular section. So discuss you're going to discover proposed solutions. So you're going to discuss proposed solutions to each of your five identifiers. Five challenges. So you're going to have 5 challenges. You're going to describe those, give some historical context to it, you're going to provide support for it, and you will also, at this point, you're going to talk about the each of those solutions. And you're going to discuss the pros and cons of the solutions that you've discussed, you've discovered, I mean, what are the arguments for and against those proposed solutions and who's going to make those arguments? You know, is it going to be community leaders in favor of those solutions? Will it be the legislation? That may prevent that may see it as too costly to implement a particular type of solution. Just trying to throw out some ideas here. So this requires critical analysis. You will want to assess the solutions as well as those in those individuals who will be detractors and supporters of any possible. So. Solutions and any biases that might be included, you will want to think through how solutions will be implemented, how they will be funded, because that's going to be one of the main reasons why people always have, you know, look at pros and cons, those detractors and those supporters, because it will most of the often it's going to come down to finance. And um and received by various stakeholders such as medical professionals, government and the public. So you're going to discuss proposed solutions to each of your five identified challenges. There are no solutions that you're going to find in your research. There are to be, I'm sorry, there are to be solutions that you found in your research. You don't want to make something up unless you can support it. OK, So what is the likely solution to the technology? Challenge. And again, I'm just using technology as an example. So what are the pros and cons of the solutions that you discovered and what are the arguments for and against these proposed solutions and by whom? So if you're looking at develop, looking at how programs are developed, there are going to be resources that are going to be necessary and. Or to. Make those programs effective. Sometimes that requires an output of finances from whoever the local officials, the if it's the organization, it might be the organization having to come up with finance, funding or whatever. So that's again something that can think of that you will think about. All right, discuss the pros and cons of the solutions. So you will want to assess the solutions as well as again, their detractors. And I think this is a duplicate slide. OK, all right, so moving forward. Your header, you know challenges to implementing population health management approach. That's your overall header. Your sub headers will be whatever your five challenges are, right? So maybe staffing shortage then with if that's your one of your challenges because I started with technology. Just to give you that example. Now I'm giving you a second example, staffing shortages, right? So under staffing shortages, you're going to, you're going to analyze it with research, you're going to provide potential solutions all under that subheading. So everything will come under the subheading. So you want to make sure that you the the completed paper should address the three parts. So remember it's three separate parts. So you want to make sure in this particular class you're going to have it all in one paper. Now in your other classes you might have three different components that are like maybe a PowerPoint presentation and a paper and an infographic or something. that. But in this particular case, you're going to have one paper that's going to have three major components to it. So you must have at least eight credible sources, five of which must be scholarly from peer-reviewed journals. So you you can filter that by using the Rasmussen Library. So you want to format your paper. Paper according to APA guidelines. So in order to maximize your points to get 100% or get that four, you want to make sure you identify 5 significant challenges to implementing a population health approach for improving health outcomes and promoting Wellness in the United States. You will make sure you offer a comprehensive description of the challenges with historical context or background. So that's your first criterion. The second rubric criterion is that you will need to provide a thorough exam explanation of why each of the five challenges has broad and far reaching implications. For improving the health of the US population, you want to include data and multiple for our greater examples will will be that'll be multiple. OK, so one or two is not going to get you multiple. Also included credible research to support assertions. That's your rubric criteria #2. Criterion #3 You will have to provide a comprehensive discussion of the proposed solution to each of the five challenges as direct as indicated in the literature, whatever in terms of your research you determine. The next criterion is included a comprehensive discussion on the pros and cons of the proposed solutions. The discussion included an adequate critical analysis of the proposed solutions. The analysis addressed possible biases and of the viewpoints. That are offered. So that's your next criterion. So remember, in order to maximize your points, you want to make sure you're focusing on that column that says mastery 4 for each one, right? Each criterion. So do that and you if you stay focused on that. You will probably do very well. Keep in mind though, this is deliverable 7 more comprehensive. So even if you don't do well on the first attempt or second, you still have up to three attempts. OK, so keep that in mind. Also know that if you submitted something in incorrect. Directly, for instance, you submitted the wrong file, then you submit the right file. So your concern then is, well, I've used up two attempts. What do I do? If it was truly something that you did where you know, at least where you're making that mistake and you're submitting, we will definitely. Give you we would look at, we will consider, I will speak for myself. We will consider an additional attempt, you know, and sometimes it'll be a one time upgrade where you get an additional attempt under circumstances such as that. But keep in mind we do not remove an attempt. We will not just give you an attempt until you need it at that point. So when it comes down to it, don't panic. If you're needing another attempt because one of your attempts really, you know, was an error and you find that you need that additional attempt, then we will work it out at that point, but we don't. Do it in advance. OK, so if you need it, we'll make it happen. But if you if you find that you're submitting and you get a A on the third attempt, then there's no need to have that additional attempt there, right? Because you've done what it is you need. But if you do need that additional attempt, please know. That you can get that, but we won't be erasing something from the system. OK, uh oh. All right. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. I look forward to uh those questions as a supportive reminder. The final day to submit your coursework is going to be March 20th. That's Friday, March 20th. Please, please, please plan in advance to ensure that you're not only meeting that deadline, but beating that deadline. So important. The reason why that's so important to. Get ahead of the deadline is because you remember at the end of the term the grading process remains the same. You still have the assessment faculty still going to try to get your your submissions graded within that three day window. Now that means that you will want to go ahead, submit early enough so that if you're if you're sitting submitting on Wednesday, there's a real good chance that you don't even know if you fail the course until after the course has ended. And there's no thing, nothing you can do. There's no coming back from that. For that course, you just sign up and take the course again. Or if you submit before then, you have the opportunity to see what that grade is. Not only that, you can make adjustments. OK, well, that's all that I had to cover for today. Oh, wait a minute. I still have another slide here. It just took a minute. Remember, if you have anything less than it too, if you have an R, make sure that R is taken care of so that you are absolutely not going to find that that R has automatically turned into an F, because that's what happens if you don't address those Rs. You remember R doesn't mean anything except for it's like a. Placeholder, but it won't mean anything until you either address it or not address it, and then it becomes whatever that grade is, but that it becomes that grade. It becomes an F Worst case scenario is if when you don't address it before the course ends. If you get a two or three, it's optional. You pass the deliverable with a two, so it's optional whether or not you want to resubmit. And if you're submitting your your final deliverable, whatever, whichever one it is, if you're submitting on, say, Monday of that week, you may have an opportunity to resubmit. OK. But I again would advise you to try to have all of your deliverables completed before that final week. So then when you find that before that final week, if you've done that, you've got more time and when there's a four, there's no need to resubmit. You've mastered that content, so you've demonstrated mastery and that's that's that's the highest that you can achieve, so there's no need to resubmit. If you have any questions, please reach out to me be before the the final deadline. So please don't send something to me as a question that's holding up your submission on the final day of the course, because what happens if you know I get after 24 hours is what my plan. To getting back to you. So please make sure that you're asking those questions in advance of that time frame. All right. So again, where we're going from here, we're going to continue to have live sessions. These will be more student-led. In other words, you will tell me what it is that you want me to do, me to cover so that I can support you. You're going to provide any suggested topics and and I'm really happy to do that and so make sure. Submitting. Don't hold on to your deliverables. Submit, submit, submit. Even if you're not really 100% sure that you've done everything you possibly could have done on the submission to make it perfect, submit anyway. OK, um, the motivational quote that I'd like to share with you is empathy is about finding echoes of another. The person in yourself, OK. Any questions, please reach out. I'm happy to help in any way that I can, but that concludes our presentation for today. Thanks everyone.

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