How VillageMD and Thyme Care use Cohort Intelligence to Improve Patient Care

Executive Summary

Every provider wants to offer effective, personalized patient care. Every payer wants to support the right care to its population at the best value. Every patient wants to be treated as an individual, with uniquely tailored care protocols to best address their specific condition.

Meeting these diverse goals–while ultimately caring for each patient as an individual–is a difficult task. We can simplify this task by understanding that individual as a member of a defined cohort.

In the population health context, a cohort is a group of patients that have similar potential for positive health outcomes from a specified action or intervention. It is a group that has undergone, is undergoing or will undergo a similar healthcare journey. It is a group that shares demographics, predictive risk and other attributes that influence their care and outcomes.

By aligning individual patients, providers, points of care, diagnoses and care paths into cohorts, you gain several advantages:

• A cohort gives you a meaningful point of reference when embarking on a treatment plan, even when the case is unique or complex.
• A cohort translates a small contingent of specialized cases into a larger group that can be meaningfully analyzed.
• A cohort identifies dispersed opportunities, where there are so many patients or touch points that it would otherwise be difficult to gain intelligence from them.

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