McKesson Population Manager is a software platform that helps healthcare providers better understand their patient populations, improve care delivery, and manage financial risk. It aggregates data from electronic health records and other systems to create condition-specific registries. These registries identify gaps in patient care and use algorithms and workflows to guide physicians to improved guidelines compliance. This helps providers enhance quality metrics and earn incentive payments while improving outcomes. The platform also incorporates tools for population health management, automated outreach to patients, and integrated reporting to help providers transition to value-based payment models.

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Performance Management
Care Providers — Hospitals
McKessonPopulationManager™offers
powerfulclinicalintelligencetohelp
providersdriveimprovementsincare
andcompliance

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As healthcare reform intensifies,
providers are under enormous
pressure to optimize and coordinate
care delivery, improve patient
outcomes and manage utilization
— all while keeping an eye on costs
and contracts. If you’re planning
on assuming more financial risk for
whole populations of patients, how
do you get from where you are to
where you want to be?
Before you can decide how
much risk you can assume, you
need to understand your patient
populations and arm yourself with
the information, processes and tools
needed to effectively analyze and
manage risk and quality.
McKesson has the expertise
and solutions to help you tackle
the two most common issues
providers face as they evolve into
an accountable care organization
(ACO): understanding your patient
populations and being accountable
for the quality and cost of care.
Improve your care delivery
Through intensive collaboration
with physicians, pharmacists,
business and IT experts, we
developed McKesson Population
Manager™, a powerful network
platform for clinical integration
and accountable care programs.
McKesson Population Manager can
help you drive improvements in care
delivery, population health, and
clinical and financial performance,
helping you earn more quality
incentive revenues while improving
patient outcomes.
Unlike disease registries, which only
provide a simple listing of patients
with a common disease, such as
diabetes, McKesson Population
Manager offers clinical intelligence
to help improve care and compliance
with evidence-based clinical
guidelines. Embedded algorithms
for both preventive care and chronic
conditions help you identify patients
in need of care, while sophisticated
workflows help guide clinical and
patient behavior to foster care
improvements.
McKesson Population Manager helps
you reduce gaps in care, streamline
workflows and improve compliance
with quality measures and care
guidelines, including Healthcare
Effectiveness Data and Information
Set (HEDIS), Integrated Healthcare
Association (IHA) and Physician
Quality Reporting System (PQRS).
And, when you are ready, you can
seamlessly add the McKesson Risk
Manager™ solution to help manage
cost and utilization in your risk
contracts.
Why choose McKesson
Population Manager?
McKesson Population Manager
offers advanced features and flexible
configurable functions:
• An enterprise information
platform that aggregates and
presents data from multiple
sources across the provider
network, including electronic
health records (EHRs), practice
management systems, pharmacies
and labs, and more
• Condition-specific registries that
help you manage populations,
track individual patients and drill
down to detailed data on clinical
events and lab results
• Integrated feedback loops that
support provider review, so
they can document and remove
ineligible patients from registries
and improve confidence in the
system
• An embedded methodology that
accurately attributes patients
to primary care physicians and
specialists, helping prompt the
appropriate physician to intervene
with the correct action when
needed (includes configurable
contingent logic)
McKesson Population Manager™
A new approach to registries and clinical integration

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• Built-in, evidence-based guidelines
and best practice support
that provide patient-specific
recommendations at the point of
care
• Integrated exception reporting
that allows physicians to exclude
ineligible patients from registries.
This helps ensure clinical integrity,
accurate pay for performance
(P4P) metrics and maximum P4P
revenues
• Enterprise compliance reporting
capabilities that identify patients
due for screenings or other clinical
care at the physician or population
level
• Powerful search capabilities that
allow you to readily identify patient
populations by health plan, age,
provider, registries and care
guidelines
• Integrated enterprise reporting
that provides the ability to quickly
generate flexible reports for the
whole network or for an individual
physician
• Automated work queues that help
drive proactive care and outreach
(letters and alerts) for continuous
quality improvements along with
configurable worklists that are
auto-populated as patients become
out of compliance with care
guidelines
• Integrated letter generation that
supports efficient outreach to
patients (batch or individual) with
mail-ready communications
• An intuitive interface that provides
functionality and workflows
purpose-built for the real world of
clinical practice
• Real-time measure adjudication
that supports clinical needs from
the provider perspective
• Auto-assignment of patients to
registries and guidelines that help
support care coordination and
reduce the need for manual review
• Segregation of process and
outcome measure compliance in
the provider interface, which helps
promote a focus on outcomes —
what really counts when trying to
improve quality and reduce costs
• Efficient workflows that help your
office team perform proactive
patient outreach throughout the
year, helping eliminate the need
to manage large periodic lists of
overdue patients
• Flexible workflows, which can
accommodate different work styles
— online or on paper
• PQRS certification for simplified
reporting
The right care at the right time
and place
By helping drive improvements
in population health, McKesson
Population Manager can empower
physicians across the full spectrum
of practice settings – from the
small physician office that has not
implemented an EHR to the larger
group practice that has deployed
multiple EHRs – to be proactive and
deliver the right care in the right
place at the right time.
Contact us
Let McKesson population health and
risk management solutions support
you with the tools and expertise
required to understand your patient
populations as you navigate through
the demands necessitated by health
reform, become clinically integrated
and evolve into an ACO. For more
information, please contact your
account executive.
Before you can decide how much risk
you can assume, you need to understand
your patient populations.

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