This document discusses establishing a population health information framework for primary care. It outlines several key steps: 1) Agree on population health goals. 2) Define measures for each goal to track outcomes. 3) Establish standards for consistent data collection. 4) Provide tools like a patient dashboard to make data collection easy and relevant to individual care. 5) Collect and report aggregated data to evaluate progress on population health goals. The experience of two regional health organizations that implemented such a framework is cited as an example.

1. A population health information framework for primary care Ken Leech HINZ Conference September 2009

2. There are few PHOs or DHBs who know whether their population health goals are being achieved

5. Acknowledgements... The great teams at the Northland PHOs and Whanganui Regional PHO

9. Using the example of “Reduce Smoking”

10. Do we know who needs intervention? The numerator

11. Do we know who needs intervention? The denominator

12. Are we delivering the intervention? The numerator

13. Are we delivering the intervention? The denominator

14. Is the intervention working?

15. How big is the problem?

17. 3. Define standards

26. Has patient dashboard increased systematic and consistent recording of population health data?

27. Recording smoking status

28. Recording alcohol consumption

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