GIM Professor of Medicine, David Matchar, MD, is currently leading the Health Services & Systems Research Program at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He will be traveling back to Durham for a short visit in February and will be presenting at a special SYNERGY Population Health Improvement Seminar on February 7.
Topic: Population segmentation based on needs: what, why, and how?
Location: Duke South, Room 3031
Time: 12-1 PM (Lunch will be served to those who register, but all are welcome to attend)
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Population Segmentation helps identify different health care needs within populations, enables tailored care models and the budgets to support them. This tactic has gained significant traction as a promising approach for turning sentiments into reality. But how do we do this in a way that is operationally practical? In this talk, Dr. Matchar will discuss his work in developing and validating a scheme for population segmentation based on health and health-related social service needs and how he is applying this general framework to more systematically optimizing health services. You won't want to miss it!