Title: Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for High-Need Patients
1Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for
High-Need Patients
- Tweet HotspottingTools
- Moderator Melinda Abrams
May 21, 2015
2Health Care Costs Concentrated in Sick
FewSickest 5 Percent Account for 50 Percent of
Expenses
Distribution of health expenditures for the U.S.
population, by magnitude of expenditure, 2009
Annual mean expenditure per person
Source Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality analysis of 2009 Medical Expenditure
Panel Survey.
3Rationale and Purpose of Todays Webinar
- High-cost patients are often high-need patients
- Need to identify and target high-need, high-cost
individuals to customize interventions to meet
their needs - Identification and targeting ? not as easy as
it sounds - Camden Coalition to develop a Fund-supported
analytic toolkit to enable communities to zero in
on high-need, high-cost patients, which is just
the first step - Todays objectives
- Learn about the toolkit
- Hear how two health systems use analytics to
target high-need, high-cost patients
4Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for
High-Need Patients
- Melinda Abrams,
- The Commonwealth Fund
Aaron TruchilCamden Coalition of Health Care
Providers
Stephen Singer Camden Coalition of Health Care
Providers
Alice Pressman, Ph.D., Sutter Health of Northern
California
James Schuster, M.D., Health Insurance Division,
UPMC
5Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for
High-Need PatientsQ AFor slides, go
tohttp//www.commonwealthfund.org/about-us/even
ts/2015/