By Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive
In hospitals, population health management uses predictive analytics to separate patients into cohorts by risk level and assign supports accordingly, and some colleges are starting to look to the strategy as a model for addressing retention. Inside Higher Ed reports new research from EAB shows promising results for colleges that have organized their advising services based on the population health management model, in which about 70% of people are categorized as low risk, 25% as medium or rising risk, and 5% as high risk. Middle Tennessee State University implemented a new model based on the healthcare strategy in fall 2014, hiring more advisors and focusing their efforts on high-risk students, who were identified through analytics as those with low GPAs, and it saw a 3.4% increase in retention in one year.
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