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Understanding Population Health

With the challenges facing our health and social care services and the need to develop new care models to achieve the triple aim of improving the health of our populations, providing better patient experiences and reducing overall cost, the need for a comprehensive understanding of population health has never been greater.

This paper explores a number of issues and opportunities including:

• The data sets available to us, what is included in them, their benefits and their limitations.
• The added value of integrating data sets rather than only using one source of data.
• Analytical tools and techniques that can be used to explore these data.
• Examples of the information and intelligence that can be derived using these techniques