Population Health continues to be a major buzzword around the healthcare industry. At the recent HiMSS 17 conference in Orlando the talk of population health was everywhere from the vendor booths to the presentations, but where does one turn to get more than just the IT focus of population health? Where can one get a sense of the breadth and depth of population health from operations to policy, current status to future state,  provider implementations, data and analytics, patient engagement, in the weeds medication adherence and wearables to large community based initiatives? In other words where can one find a full serving of all that population health is?
That place is the Jefferson Population Health Colloquium, also in its 17th year.
This year’s event features keynotes ranging from the Future of Managed Care to Good Health is Good Business: The Results of an Innovative Alignment with Physicians and Communities.
Here are just a few of the many leaders providing keynotes this year include:

• Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA
  President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA
• Marilyn Tavenner
  Chief Executive Officer, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Washington, DC
• Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP
  President and Chief Executive Officer, AcademyHealth, Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Washington, DC
• Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD
  Founder and Director, MIT AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• Allison Brennan, MPP
  Vice President of Policy, National Association of ACOs, Washington, DC

The balance of keynotes can be found on the program Agenda. The range and diversity topics covered is impressive.
Digging deeper into the Colloquium’s agenda we find ‘mini-summits‘ and ‘concurrent sessions’ on day two covering the following topics:

• Mini Summit 1: Advancing Interoperability Across Care Settings
• Mini Summit 2: Executive Perspectives on the Transformation to Value-Based Care
• Mini Summit 3: The “Ultimate Game Changers” Game — How Will Healthcare Change in 2017?
• Mini Summit 4: If You Think Patient Data is About Wearable Devices, You’re Wrong
• Mini Summit 5: Health Systems and Pharmaceuticals: Best Practices for Population Health

And concurrent sessions:

• Concurrent Session 1: Developing and Executing a Population Health Strategy
• Concurrent Session 2: Using Population Health to Meet Community Needs
• Concurrent Session 3: Science, Innovation and Discovery
• Concurrent Session 4: Patient Engagement and Communication
• Concurrent Session 5: Predictive Analytics and Technology

The most difficult part of this conference is deciding which sessions to attend. The complete agenda is available here, and a direct registration link for full details, here.
Also on Day two will be the awarding of the Hearst Health Prize For Excellence in Population Health now in its second year, this $100,000 prize goes to……..? Check out last year’s debrief of the winner ‘Community Care of North Carolina‘.
Tuesday evening closes with an optional dinner session, but one definitely worth attending to hear from Michael Dowling and Dr. Stephen Klasko on a panel moderated by David Nash MD, MBA.  This interesting and informative panel will discuss The Future of Clinically Integrated Networks a critically important component of creating a better health system and integrating population health.
I hope to see you there.