Leveraging Shared-Decision Making to Manage Population Health
Published December 3, 2015
Gloria Stone Plottel, MS, MBA, Founder and CEO, GSPsquared LLC
Adam Licurse, MD, MHS, Associate Medical Director, Partners Population HealthCare Management and the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization
In this session, we’ll take an in-depth look at Shared-Decision Making and learn why it is key to managing population health, improving patient outcomes, increasing patient engagement, and reducing healthcare costs. Partners HealthCare Population Health Management will share lessons learned from its work to expand and implement Shared-Decision Making in Partners HealthCare’s 10 hospitals and hundreds of physician practices. Participants will learn how to use Shared-Decision Making to increase patient engagement, best practices for running a Shared-Decision Making program and key considerations for expanding a Shared-Decision Making program throughout an integrated health system.
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