Who is the quarterback of population health?

Population health management is often mentioned as the salve for many of the health system's wounds. If only patients could be better managed, with fewer complications and more efficiency, health outcomes would improve and costs would evaporate from the system.

But the general consensus on population health management ends with that basic concept. There are so many different groups of patients to cover and multiple stakeholders bearing some kind of risk that nearly every model takes a different approach. Whether an insurer sees the greatest incentive to manage a patient or a physician pitches in on a shared savings model, each entity has its own perspective on how to best help patients navigate the complicated, often duplicitous health system.