PHA June 2020 Newsletter - The Voice of Population Health

The Population Health Alliance is committed to supporting members and our constituent community throughout this extremely challenging time. While some serve on the front lines and others work from home, all pop health professionals are collectively working to best support the health, wellbeing, and safety of our communities. Throughout this struggle, PHA remains committed to be your home for pop health networking, education, and advocacy.

This month's PHA Voice newsletter features announcements about the 2020 Innovation Summit and Capitol Caucus, a partnership extension and the newest PHA member benefit, a welcome to our newest member, and the latest news from our member organizations.

Get involved with PHA Today or contact Brent Ling, Executive Director by email or at 202.737.5476 for more information.

PHA extends our best wishes for healthy and safe families and teams.

PHA ANNOUNCES THE 2020 INNOVATION SUMMIT AND CAPITOL CAUCUS – OCTOBER 27 & 28, 2020

On June 4th PHA announced the 2020 Innovation Summit and Capitol Caucus would take place virtually on October 27th and 28th. The announcement highlighted this year's theme "Emerging Population Health Management Strategies in Our New Era of Health Care", the event's focus on presenting a fully interactive virtual conference setting, and the addition of a second day of education and networking with peers across the country.

"We’re excited to offer the virtual format this year and maximize the unique ability to engage across the country and interact with some of our international membership and constituents. Further, the newly added second day affords the opportunity to move beyond the top-quality educational presentations PHA is known for, and dedicate time to make the kinds of direct connections across the spectrum of care that create successful population health partnerships.” said Jaan Sidorov MD, PHA President

Join PHA's 2020 Virtual Innovation Summit and Capitol Caucus to engage in in-depth learning and direct discussions about urgent population health challenges and emerging solutions. See below for event information, registration, and sponsorship opportunities:

Read the Announcement

Visit the Event Page

2020 Innovation Summit Sponsors:

Showcase Your Innovations at the PHA Summit

New PHA Member Benefit: Special Tuition & Enrollment Rates at Jefferson College of Population Health

The long-term partnership between PHA and Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH) is more important now than ever before, as we both work to improve population health in the United States. While PHA promotes the practice of population health by providing networking, peer-to-peer learning & education, and industry advocacy, the JCPH advances our field through first class education and research. Today our organizations are excited to announce PHA's newest member benefit, a special member-only tuition rate for enrollment in Jefferson College of Population Health's academic offerings.

All employees of PHA member organizations are entitled to a special discounted tuition & enrollment rates to the JCPH Population Health Academy as well as graduate degree and certificate programs. Learn more about these programs, and hear about the new Masters' track designed specifically for employers by watching our announcement video, or visiting jefferson.edu/PHA

Contact PHA at staff@populationhealthalliance.org or 202.737.5476 with any questions about this new member benefit

Welcome New PHA Member: Medecision

“Medecision is widely recognized in the healthcare industry for its leadership and highly innovative approaches to driving value. As a membership organization committed to increasing expertise in, awareness of and support for population health, Medecision’s membership will not only benefit all stakeholders in population health, but buyers, payers, providers and, most of all, patients.”

- Jaan Sidorov MD, President & CEO of the PA Clinical Network and President of the Population Health Alliance.

Read the announcement at populationhealthalliance.org and welcome Medecision to the PHA Community!

News from PHA Members:

NCQA announced a July 9th webinar presentation on their Population Health Program Accreditation (full post)

PA Clinical Network and Geisinger Health Plan announce value-based contract agreement to achieve better health outcomes and lower costs (full post)

TapCloud technology featured as part of a Care Dimensions project to support caregivers of hospice patients at home that was recently awarded a grant from the NextFifty Initiative (full post)

American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) announced the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) as first to earn certified program designation (full post)

HealthCheck360 released the final episode of their COVID-19 Workplace Solutions webinar series; highlighting how Chronic Care Management can support employees with related symptoms and underlying health conditions (full post)

Leavitt Partners' founder Governor Mike Leavitt provided testimony, recommendations, on how to better prepare for pandemics to the U.S. Senate HELP Committee (full post)

Ceresti recognized as Cool Company for 2020 by Connect/San Diego Venture Group (full post)

Olio Health released 'How a Top-5 Next Generation ACO, Deaconess Care Integration, Continues to Improve Post-Acute Utilization via en Engaged Provider Network', a recap of their webinar with Deaconess and PHA (full post)

HMS' Health Engagement Platform Delivers Multi-Channel COVID-19 Communications To Over 7 Million Americans (full post)

GuideWell, Florida Blue and Florida Blue Foundation Pledge Support to Tackle Systemic Racism (full post)

Bravo Wellness announces acquisition of Chicago-based PUSH Wellness, bolstering its position as an industry leader in performance-based wellness market (full post)

eQHealth Solutions earns URAC accreditation in utilization management, demonstrating the highest level of commitment to quality healthcare (full post)

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study finds pregnancy and childbirth complications rise 31.5% as more millennial women have pre-existing conditions that can increase their risk (full post)

Wellsource article lays out three ways to use HRA data to increase Medicaid engagement (full post)

Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Announces Launch of National Cardiometabolic Center Alliance, a coalition that that seeks to establish Cardiometabolic Centers of Excellence nationwide (full post)

Jefferson College of Population Health Now Offering New Online Population Health Essentials Academy July 13th through 15th (full post)

Merck Announces Call for Proposals for Second Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities, Expanding Maternal Health Support Across US Cities; deadline for proposals is August 24th, 2020 (full post)

Voices for Healthy Kids announced $1M Granted to Community Organizations for Pandemic Response (full post)

Turn-Key Health services highlighted in "'Pre-Acute' Palliative Care Offers Medicare Advantage Opportunity for Home Health Providers" in Home Health Care News (full post)

Mercy Health: Mercy Kids President Describes Changes to Preventive, Routine Care, as part of Mercy's response to COVID-19 (full post)

NACDD announced that it will distribute nine mini-grants of $25,000 to advance health equity and antiracism work in select states (full post)

Franciscan Health Foundation announced an award from the FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program to boost virtual care push (full post)

Welldoc's BlueStarⓇ further expands use of digital tool for diabetes care within leading academic medical center (full post)

McGrigor Group released Issue 17 of news headlines series highlighting news in IPMI, population health management, digital health, and health services (full post)

Tufts Health Plan Recognized as one of the 50 Most Community-Minded Companies in the United States (full post)

Government Employees Health Association (GEHA) President and CEO Darren Taylor issued a pledge to make change happen (full post)

Geisinger and Siemens Healthineers Announce Value Partnership to Drive Digital Healthcare (full post)

Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC), ACMA collaborate to support case manager professional development (full post)

YMCA chapters' actions to feed schoolchildren during coronavirus response were featured in a USA Today article highlighting the importance and the costs of operating school lunch programs during the pandemic (full post)

HGS AxisPoint Health's Dr Virginia Gurley authored "The paradox of population health: Focus on personalized support for the greatest impact" in MedCityNews (full post)

Independent Health to Continue Covering All Costs for COVID-19 treatment (full post)

Aerial by Medecision announces new enhancements that support vulnerable populations impacted by COVID-19 (full post)

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