Improving Population Health Management With Public Health Approaches

Hello once more from sunny Florida, where yesterday we wrapped up The 2015 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute with a gathering of 400+ energetic executives focused on the tools and best practices to improve organizational performance. Arthur C. Evans, Jr., Ph.D., Commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAbility Services opened our meeting on Thursday with A New Future For Behavioral Health: Using Public Health Models To Manage Population Health. His comments made me think in a new way about the potential for public health models to “move the needle” on population health management (see Moving Beyond The . . .