Danger, selecting the wrong population health vendor can spell disaster. After trying to secure a population health solution for a client, it became very clear that even the very large vendors in this space did not have a real end to end solution. Besides your electronic medical records or your electronic health records vendor (ideally it should be the same, but not necessary) you should only have one additional vendor, that vendor should provide all of your population health needs, reporting and administrative dashboards and provide it all in a friendly interoperable enterprise setting.

Population health is the aggregation and capacity to be able to acquire patient healthcare data from across the continuum of care and multiple health information technology resources to a larger data pool where it can be sorted into a single actionable patient record. Healthcare providers can improve patient, clinical and financial outcomes by having all of the actionable patient record.