Population Health: Embrace It or Risk Losing Your Job

Abstract

I recently spoke for a group of advanced practitioners, physicians, and diabetes educators. My topic was population health in diabetes and how we all need to work differently. There were good questions during the presentation, and comments during break were positive from all types of participants. I was especially interested in those from diabetes educators. Some written comments were “Fantastic. Great for CDEs to hear and it has inspired me to be more proactive re. quality in my organization.” And, “Your talk was great! I really think we as diabetes educators should be thinking and working more towards population health.” However, a few comments surprised me: