CHAPTER SIX
MANAGING THE HEALTH OF POPULATIONS
By Louise L. Liang, MD; Robert Unitan, MD; and Jed Weissberg, MD
Chapter Summary
This chapter discusses ways in which KP HealthConnect is being used to enable significantly improved population care management—the key strategy for addressing the most debilitating and costly chronic conditions. Part One of this chapter, by Louise Liang, MD, describes the conceptual basis of population care management and how the advent of the electronic health record (EHR) is enabling the unleashing of its full promise. It concludes with several case studies of chronic condition care innovations enabled by KP HealthConnect. ...
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