What seemed incredibly messy and poorly defined even five years ago, is gradually now coming into focus, and that is the question of where the entire "journey of 1,000 miles" around leveraging data and analytics for population health management and clinical transformation, is headed. What's clear now, as the leaders of pioneering patient care organizations plow ahead on that road, is that things are moving towards both big-picture coordination of masses of data to improve the health status of entire communities, and at the same time, towards smaller-picture pinpointing of gaps in care delivery and effectiveness, across entire integrated health systems. Among the larger integrated health systems, certainly, the senior leaders at UC San Diego Health in San Diego are steaming full-speed ahead. And helping to lead the charge there is Amy Sitapati, M.D., a practicing internal medicine physician and the chief medical information officer for population health for the organization (in fact, UCSD Health has three CMIOs-one for population health, one for inpatient care, and one for outpatient care). Dr. Sitipati, who looks at the overall U.S. healthcare system and says, "We're still in kindergarten in terms of U.S. healthcare system-wide efforts," also says that "We're mid-field now in terms of the way an individual health system thinks about this."
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