Achieving a successful population health program is no easy feat, but a recent pilot showed positive results for patients with chronic diseases. Providers admit that improving population health outcomes is more difficult than it sounds. Yet, its necessary, not only because of the move toward value-based care, but also for managing the health needs of a growing and aging population.Despite spending nearly twice as much on care, population health outcomes in the U.S. are significantly lower when compared to other high-income countries, a new report by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Economics finds. This higher spending on healthcare can be attributed in many ways to chronic diseases, which account for 86 percent of all healthcare expenditures, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Moreover, in the U.S., nearly 50 percent of the population has one or more chronic diseases, the CDC notes.

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