3 Keys to Integrated, Holistic Population Health Management Population health management has transformed in just a few years from a concept to a buzzword to, simply, what plans across the country aim for as they seek information about their members and providers and look for ways to maximize quality care and minimize costs. Just because everybody's doing it, though, doesn't mean they're doing it properly. Too often, "population health" is more about a specific component - identifying pools of members with manageable health risks, say, or building provider networks more on cost of services delivery than on quality - and isn't focused on the value found in the sum of its many parts. That approach has resulted in plans operating off what is still very much a siloed population health strategy. How do plans manage member risk and provider performance for the best financial and health outcomes? How do they make the myriad components of population health management work together for best effect, in other words? This eBrief explores these questions and identifies three ingredients for next-generation population health management.