Managing Diseases and Chronic Care Through Population Health Informatics Solutions

Managing Diseases and Chronic Care Through Population Health Informatics Solutions

All nations are challenged with chronic conditions in populations that drive excessive utilization of health services. What is common in one country may differ from what is common in another, just as populations differ around the world. Also, some diseases and conditions may be transmitted from one country to the next as people travel from one place to the next. As someone interested in a career in population health, it is important to familiarize yourself with diseases and chronic care as a global issue and understand how other nations respond to related challenges using health informatics strategies.

For this Assignment, you place yourself in the role of an employee working in the health system in one of these nations. You will identify a particular population and disease that you feel drives particularly high consumption of health-related resources in that nation.

Assignment: Managing Diseases and Chronic Care Through Population Health Informatics Solutions

To Prepare:

Review the Resources for this week.

Select a current health system in the United States or abroad from one of the following countries:

Australia

Canada

France

Germany

India

Norway

Sweden

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

The United Kingdom

The Assignment: (1-2 pages)

Write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you address the following:

Identify the country you selected. Define a population and disease or chronic condition(s) that a health employee in your selected country is managing in order to meet quality and financial demands in their markets. Justify your selection.

Explain the kinds of health systems and data that might be used to effectively analyze disease and chronic illness in populations.Justify your choices.

Identify the external entities (e.g., insurance entities, government bodies, patient groups) who have the most impact on this organization’s use of informatics to manage chronic illness in their identified populations. Justify your answer.

Propose two or three potential population health informatics solutions to address problems related to disease management and chronic care and explain why they might address the problems.

Propose two or three potential population health informatics solutions to address problems related to disease management and chronic care.