What does the cure for scurvy have to do with the transition to population health? It shows that in healthcare, change — even change that’s unequivocally good — takes time. Emergency room physician Kevin Ban, M.D., head of athenahealth’s population health service, talks about his own journey from treating individuals to managing large groups of patients — and the mindsets that need to shift as healthcare embraces the future.

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