Lean Principles Can Help Manage Population Health

Lean principles and processes are becoming important tools in the transformation of health care delivery, transparency and cost. While more and more success stories are emerging on the system side, there’s an opportunity for "Lean" in managing population health.

Population health, whether it’s caring for a specific patient population by condition or addressing social determinants of health at a societal level, is a large-scale effort to affect the health of an entire group of people.