Forward Health Group The Voice Archive MMX → MMXXVI

Fifty Phrases.

Pulled first-hand from sixteen years of public-facing copy. Every line traced back to the snapshot it appeared in. The old memories, coming back into view.

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Reel One

The keepers — verbatim into any 2026 piece.

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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2020-09-19 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2020-09-19

We Harvest Fresh Data®

Registered-mark, ownable, and the metaphor still works. Quietly the strongest line in the entire harvest — distinctive enough to anchor a Forwarded section header or a deck cover.

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How We Do It Clinical Measure Intelligence™
We Harvest Fresh Data®
Implementation Timeline
SOC 2 Type II
How We Do It Clinical Measure Intelligence™
We Harvest Fresh Data®
Implementation Timeline
SOC 2 Type II
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-30 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2017-04-30

Population Health Without the Wait.

Period-as-punctuation, four-word headline, names the latency problem the entire category still has nine years later. A leave-behind tagline.

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Request a Demo
Measure Quality. Motivate Clinicians. Maximize Incentives. Forward Health Group’s population health measurement platforms and data strategies drive success in the move to value. LEARN MORE REQUEST DEMO Population Health Without the Wait.
What our clients are saying…
Forward Health Group is creating something new for us (and them)…they have been very accommodating and understanding…I feel it is a very good relationship.
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-02-08 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2015-02-08

We want to fix health care.

Five words. Mission-direct. The kind of line a CEO writes on the whiteboard before the deck exists. Still earns its place in the opening slide of any FHG board update.

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The answer is simple:
We want to fix health care.
By harvesting messy, health care data from all of your disparate data sources, transforming it into actionable metadata, and delivering intuitive results through PopulationManager ® , a powerful web-based engine that reveals gaps in care.
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Era 4 · Avada Theme Fusion 2023-09-22 forward.health · forward.health/2023-09-22

We are health care data bilingual — we speak both clinical (EHR) data and health plan (claims) data.

The bilingual canon. This is the load-bearing sentence that distinguishes FHG from every claims-only vendor and every clinical-only vendor. Lift it verbatim into any payor/provider deck.

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Leadership
Contact
Leadership
Contact
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-02-08 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2015-02-08

Get out of the Health IT implementation business and into the performance improvement business.

The reframe move. Especially powerful now in the OBBB / Medicaid / rural-collapse moment — health systems are drowning in implementation work and starving for performance work. Forwarded On the Square candidate.

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What if you got more than a PDF of your data?
Get out of the Health IT implementation business and into the performance improvement business.
We give clinicians information they want and need but could never access. When they (and their teams) can leverage this information to do the job they were born to do, patients will be healthier, quality will go up and costs will go down. That’s where everyone is trying to go. With FHG, your information isn’t just a fuzzy pile of data, it’s transformed into focused, care coordination action lists that will become your organization’s richest asset.
Our tool, PopulationManager ® , gives you the data you need to:
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Era 4 · Avada Theme Fusion 2020-10-21 forward.health · forward.health/2020-10-21

Health care is tough. Data shouldn't make it tougher.

Counter-framing. The kind of line a tired CFO nods at. Works as a slide-divider, a one-pager headline, or a follow-up email subject line.

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SOLUTIONS
FHGTV
CONTACT
Forward Health Group
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2016-05-07 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2016-05-07

FastForward to Value-Based Care

Branded program-name from the BTE era. Worth resurrecting as a Use Case dialect — VBC is back in vogue under HHS rhetoric, and FHG owns the wordmark precedent.

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Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation – Spring Gala Forward Health Group is hosting a table at the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation Spring Gala on May 21, 2016. With the Awards Ceremony at the Madison Concourse Hotel, followed by a glamorous cocktail reception and auction in the State Capitol Rotunda, a splendid time is guaranteed by all. Read more.
FastForward to Value-Based Care
Only Forward Health Group has the ability to speed your transition to value-based care. With data you can trust, measures that matter, and an ability to truly engage doctors, Forward Health Group quickly and cost-effectively enables healthier patient populations, and a better bottom line.
Value-based population health management—how we do it:
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-12-25 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2015-12-25

Take a little trip…

Voice marker — narrative invitation, not corporate boilerplate. The Obi-Wan register from a decade before we named it. Reusable opener for any long-form piece.

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We transform your health care data into fuel you can use to manage populations of patients effectively. That's real population health management.
Real world population health management – how do we do it? Take a little trip…
By harvesting messy, health care data from all of your disparate data sources, transforming it into actionable metadata, and delivering intuitive results through PopulationManager ® , a powerful web-based engine that reveals gaps in care. With clean data and smart population health management, you will do amazing things.
Actual examples of population health management at work? Here's what real users of PopulationManager say -
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Era 4 · Avada Theme Fusion 2022-05-17 forward.health · forward.health/2022-05-17

Usable Data

Era-marker — the brief moment when FHG tightened the noun-phrase before the bilingual line took over. Two words, still ownable. Could anchor a 2026 reframe.

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SOLUTIONS
FHGTV
CONTACT
Health care is tough. Data shouldn’t make it tougher.
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Era 4 · Avada Theme Fusion 2023-09-22 forward.health · forward.health/2023-09-22

Mission-line evolution: improving the bottom line → improving patient access and experience

Not a single phrase but a pivot worth canonizing. Between September 2023 and August 2024, the Our Why sentence shifted from financial to access/experience. The pivot itself is the artifact — it documents when FHG re-centered on patients and clinicians. Worth a Forwarded On the Square note on its own.

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Captured by side-by-side reading of forward.health 2023-09-22 and 2024-08-15 snapshots. The earlier read: "improving the bottom line" anchored the Our Why sentence; the later read replaces it with "improving patient access and experience."

Spools 11 → 20

Reel Two

The second feature. Strong enough to plug into a Forwarded section or Use Case dialect.

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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-29 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2015-04-29

What if your doctors were happy and actually smiling again?

Anchor of a seven-question rhetorical engine that ran for nearly two years. The smiling-doctors line is the keeper. Reusable as a Forwarded section or a deck-divider rhythm.

The carousel that ran behind the question — recovered from the 2015-2017 homepage
Close-up of ethernet cable ports in an orange-tinted rack — banner imagery from the FHG homepage What-If? carousel, 2015-2017.
What if you didn't need an HL7 interface?
Orange-tinted office conference phone on a desk — banner imagery from the FHG homepage What-If? carousel, 2015-2017.
What if you could use your data in 8 to 12 weeks?
Orange-tinted photo of four women at a whiteboard — banner imagery from the FHG homepage What-If? carousel, 2015-2017.
What if your nurses and medical assistants could drive innovation?
Orange-tinted photo of a busy office desk with file folders, a 2007 binder, and a desk phone — banner imagery from the FHG homepage What-If? carousel, 2015-2017.
What if you didn't need to add another task in the queue of your data analysts?
Orange-tinted close-up of a keyboard key labeled ShutDown — banner imagery from the FHG homepage What-If? carousel, 2015-2017.
What if your doctors were happy and actually smiling again?
Orange-tinted photo of a server-warehouse hallway — banner imagery from the FHG homepage What-If? carousel, 2015-2017.
What if you didn't need a data warehouse?
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The full What-If cluster, in order as it ran on the homepage 2015-04-29 → 2017-01-30:
• What if you didn't need an HL7 interface?
• What if you could use your data in 8 to 12 weeks?
• What if your nurses and medical assistants could drive innovation?
• What if you didn't need to add another task in the queue of your data analysts?
• What if your doctors were happy and actually smiling again?
• What if you didn't need a data warehouse?
• What if you got more than a PDF of your data?

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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

Transforming Data Into Outcomes Since 2009

Origin-story tagline. Anniversary-friendly — works on a sigil, a footer, a leave-behind cover. Quietly load-bearing.

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About Us
Transforming Data Into Outcomes Since 2009
Forward Health Group, Inc. founded by Michael Barbouche Forward Health Group launches the PopulationManager platform (ver 1.0). Secures its first enterprise health system client with an Epic EHR + 2x Care Management Platforms + 2x External Data Sources, 20 Performance Measures.
2010 The company launches PopulationManager ver 2.0. First Health Plan Client: 2x EHRs + 2x Claims Sources + 1x Disease Management Platform + 1x Care Coordination Platform, including 60 Performance Measures. Wins 2nd place (overall) in Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest (we lost to something called LiveYearbook).
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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-03-17 forwardhealthgroup.com · company__labs.php/2013-03-17

FHG Labs and SkunkWorks

The literal precedent for fhglabs.studio / .com / .works. FHG has called its innovation surface 'Labs' since 2013 — that's not branding drift, that's thirteen years of consistency. Listed projects: AccountableFitness, Mental Health & Substance Abuse, Orbits.

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FHG Labs and SkunkWorks
Cool stuff just over the horizon—Forward Health Group works with visionaries to solve challenging health care riddles in very imaginative ways. A sampling of the projects in the works:
AccountableFitness
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2016-08-08 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2016-08-08

Four hours per month…

Metric-as-promise opener. Cuts through the implementation-fatigue noise instantly. Plug-and-play for any pitch where time-to-value is the question.

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Easing the reporting burden by providing data, calculation and report submission services.
Four hours per month...
Listen to Laken describe how much easier it is to reach out to patients...
Here's a quick glimpse of PopulationManager®...
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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-10-01 forwardhealthgroup.com · company__about_us.php/2013-10-01

Setting the new standard of data care

The 'health care' → 'data care' reframe. Three-word noun-phrase swap that still lands. Could anchor a 2026 positioning line — 'FHG sets the standard of data care.'

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Forward Health Group was founded in 2009 and has since become the go-to health data and analytics partner for leading health care providers and organizations including The Guideline Advantage™, an alliance of the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association. Large integrated systems and small, high-performing specialty clinics use Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager to identify and assess risk and drive meaningful, measurable improvements in their patient populations.
As health care is transformed, Forward Health Group is setting the new standard of data care.
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-08-12 forwardhealthgroup.com · clean-data/2017-08-12

Got messy data? Talk to our experts.

CTA that doesn't perform. Conversational, low-friction, the opposite of every 'schedule a demo' button. Re-deployable on any Use Case footer.

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What We Do Platforms Overview
PopulationManager®
PopulationCompass™
How We Do It Clinical Measure Intelligence™
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-10-17 forwardhealthgroup.com · forwardhealthgroup.com/2015-10-17

We transform your health care data into fuel you can use to manage populations of patients effectively.

The fuel metaphor — sibling and predecessor to 'We Harvest Fresh Data®.' Together they form a metaphor family (harvest → fuel) worth re-activating for 2026.

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Want to drive better patient outcomes?
We transform your health care data into fuel you can use to manage populations of patients effectively. That’s real population health management.
Find out how we do it.
Fixing health care through better data
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Era 4 · Avada Theme Fusion 2023-09-22 forward.health · forward.health/2023-09-22

We are older than your typical 'health care tech' team (most of us have gray hair…)

Voice marker. Anti-tech-bro, honest about tenure, distinctly FHG. The kind of line a board chair quotes back to you a year later.

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To enable health care stakeholders to deliver better care at a lower cost while simultaneously improving the bottom line so that, for everyone, health care can be clinician-centric, patient-focused, and free of financial and operational burdens.
We are older than your typical “health care tech” team (most of us have gray hair and over three decades years of direct health care experience).
We have aging parents who have struggled to navigate the delivery system to receive care.
We have lost people very close to us because the system was inefficient and broken.
To enable health care stakeholders to deliver better care at a lower cost while simultaneously improving the bottom line so that, for everyone, health care can be clinician-centric, patient-focused, and free of financial and operational burdens.
We are older than your typical “health care tech” team (most of us have gray hair and 30+ years of direct health care experience). We have aging parents that have struggled to navigate the delivery system to receive care. We have lost people very close to us because the system was inefficient and broken. We understand that health care represents a significant portion of the economy and that revenue is vital to every stakeholder.
We Deliver Your Data Quickly
Deployed within your existing infrastructure (no additional investment) and within 4 weeks!
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Era 4 · Avada Theme Fusion 2023-09-22 forward.health · forward.health/2023-09-22

We have aging parents who have struggled to navigate the delivery system to receive care.

The why behind the why. Personal-stakes line — does work that no slogan can. Reusable in board updates, federal-civilian conversations, anywhere the humanity of the FHG team matters.

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We are older than your typical “health care tech” team (most of us have gray hair and over three decades years of direct health care experience).
We have aging parents who have struggled to navigate the delivery system to receive care.
We have lost people very close to us because the system was inefficient and broken.
We understand that health care represents a significant portion of the economy and that revenue is vital to every stakeholder.
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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-10-01 forwardhealthgroup.com · company__about_us.php/2013-10-01

Forward Health Group is the Population Health Management & Measurement Company

The 2013 self-definition. Em-dash construction, definite article. The company, not a company. A reminder that FHG was claiming category leadership thirteen years ago — and the category still doesn't have a clear arbiter.

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CONNECT
Forward Health Group is the Population Health Management & Measurement Company
While many are talking about improving health care outcomes, we are actually doing it. We are equipping health care institutions across the country with the necessary tools to impact quality and financial outcomes in the new health care landscape.
With its best-in-class data collection, validation and analytics tools, Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager® helps turn data from disparate sources into fuel to manage populations of patients, driving improvements in the quality outcomes equated with both clinical improvement and financial success.
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Reel Three

Voice-marker layer. The orange canon, the 2010 alliterative origin, the founding mission triplet.

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2010-08-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · mission/2010-08-06

Accepted. Actionable. Accountable.

Three-A alliterative. Period-as-punctuation discipline before it was discipline. The original mission tagline from FHG's first year online. Drop it on any 2026 piece and it still works.

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Accepted. Actionable. Accountable.
Our Mission
Forward Health Group’s mission is to work side-by-side with health care providers to plumb, clarify and present their clinical data to them in an accepted, actionable and accountable way.
We focus on clinical data.
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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2010-08-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · mission/2010-08-06

We focus on clinical data. We support quality improvement with quality measurement. We help you unlock the potential of your data.

The foundational what-we-do sentence in three beats. The middle clause — 'quality improvement with quality measurement' — is the line that quietly built the entire company.

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Accepted. Actionable. Accountable.
Our Mission
Forward Health Group’s mission is to work side-by-side with health care providers to plumb, clarify and present their clinical data to them in an accepted, actionable and accountable way.
We focus on clinical data.
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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2010-08-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · mission/2010-08-06

You have an unrealized asset at your fingertips — your data.

The 2010 framing that became the entire industry's framing fifteen years later. FHG said it first. Reusable on every Use Case landing strip.

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We help you unlock the potential of your data.
You have an unrealized asset at your fingertips—your data. We make the data flow so you can demonstrate to payors, strategic partners, and most importantly, patients, the quality of care you deliver.
WHAT WE DO
WHO WE ARE
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-10-27 forwardhealthgroup.com · blog/2015-10-27

Blog – Orange Data Peels

Orange. FHG's blog was literally called Orange Data Peels in 2015. This is the proof that orange-as-brand-color goes back at least eleven years — direct precedent for today's fhglabs.studio orange. Worth resurrecting Orange Data Peels as a Forwarded section name.

The 2010 wordmark — eleven years before fhglabs.studio orange
The 2010 Forward Health Group wordmark with an orange-slice sigil to the left of the type.
The 2010 wordmark — orange-slice sigil + ForwardHealth group. The literal visual origin of the orange canon.
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Events
Blog – Orange Data Peels
DSRIP
Data Safety: SOC 2 Type II
Events
Blog – Orange Data Peels
DSRIP
Data Safety: SOC 2 Type II
Contact
Blog – Orange Data Peels
Share this:
Share
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2016-06-01 forwardhealthgroup.com · medi-cal-prime/2016-06-01

Make your data fly.

Four words. Verb forward. Action metaphor. Could anchor a 2026 PopulationCompass tagline.

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And there’s more – • No costly HL7 (non-sustainable) interfaces. • AICPA SOC2 Type II® certified – your data is safe and secure. And we are all about HIPAA, of course.
Population health management software Learn how to move the needle of improvement – make your data fly. Learn More
How to identify your most at-risk patients Your patients’ comorbid conditions come into immediate focus with stunning data visualizations. Learn More
FHG clients talk about PopulationManager Inflight entertainment: short video clips about the flight to Quality. Learn More
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2016-06-01 forwardhealthgroup.com · medi-cal-prime/2016-06-01

Welcome to the brave new world of Medi-Cal PRIME.

Huxley reference, knowing voice, plain confidence. The 2026 dialect would be 'Welcome to the brave new world of v28' or 'of CRG-arbitrated reimbursement.' The construction transfers.

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A Population Health Management Solution for California PRIME
Welcome to the brave new world of Medi-Cal PRIME. You’re going to need help with your data – you’ve come to the right place – we’ll help you navigate through this.
Here’s where you are now:
Building on the nation’s first successful Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP), California’s designated public hospitals (DPHs) are implementing Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME). These DPHs and district municipal public hospitals (DMPHs) have committed to improving outcomes in physical and behavioral health integration and outpatient primary and specialty care delivery. Further, PRIME requires a transition to alternative payment methods – it’s the fast lane to value-based care.
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-08-12 forwardhealthgroup.com · implementation-timeline/2017-08-12

Data Stewardship™

Registered mark. Two-word noun-phrase that says exactly what FHG does and isn't said by anyone else in the category. Live ammunition.

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How We Do It Clinical Measure Intelligence™
Data Stewardship™ Data Acquisition
Data Curation
Data Aggregation
How We Do It Clinical Measure Intelligence™
Data Stewardship™ Data Acquisition
Data Curation
Data Aggregation
After numerous investments in health IT platforms and services, what value do you still need to yield from your data? Forward Health Group will help you answer this question first – “What can we measure right now?” Project overview, scope, rapid implementation timeline, initial deliverables. Bring all the key players into one room with a whiteboard (we’ll bring the whiteboard markers). Forward Health Group assigns clinical, analytical and project management resources.
Data Stewardship TM
Your data is messy. It’s truly, completely, entirely complex and full of thorny issues. There are numerous, conflicting, diverse data pathways to review. Our job is to sort through that chaos and distill the data strategy that works for your measurement goals given these disparate data sources. Forward Health Group’s ongoing, iterative data process delivers the clean data your clinicians will trust. Your data is rigorously aligned, cleaned, attributed, and validated before it is published for your review.
QA & Validation
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2018-06-12 forwardhealthgroup.com · news__fqhc-ceo-we-are-the-way-healthcare-will-be-delivered-in-the-future/2018-06-12

We are the way health care will be delivered in the future. — Beth Wrobel, CEO of HealthLinc

External validation from an FQHC CEO in Healthcare Informatics. The kind of quote you'd lift onto a slide before a federal-civilian conversation — primary-care-forward, FQHC-forward, and dated 2018 (eight years before HRSA-talk became a 2026 staple).

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What We Do Platforms Overview
PopulationManager®
PopulationCompass®
How We Do It Clinical Measure Intelligence™
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-06-19 forwardhealthgroup.com · population-health-software__move-the-needle/2015-06-19

Move the Needle

Product-page name from 2015. Three words that any clinician understands instantly. A heading-or-section-divider that's never the wrong choice.

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Identify Your Most At-Risk Patients
Move the Needle
Determine Your Outlier Patients
Compare Physician Performance
Identify Your Most At-Risk Patients
Move the Needle
Determine Your Outlier Patients
Compare Physician Performance
Contact
Move the Needle
Click To Enlarge
In PopulationManager, Action Lists help clinicians and their care teams do exactly that—take action. Manage your patient population by ensuring that each team member is working from the same place. Action lists are in a shared workspace so all care team members that are attached to or associated with the patient panel have permission to view and work from the list. The result? Care teams move the needle and improve outcomes.
Action Lists enable all care team members to work from the same place.
Patient outreach becomes an easy, coordinated team effort, with the status indicator displaying what has been done.
Identify Your Most At-Risk Patients
Move the Needle
Determine Your Outlier Patients
Compare Physician Performance
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2018-08-20 forwardhealthgroup.com · news__electrifying-the-hiv-promise-in-wisconsin/2018-08-20

Electrifying the HIV Promise in Wisconsin…

Headline-as-thesis. Active verb, named promise, named state, ellipsis voice. This is the rhythm to bring back for OBBB-era state-by-state Use Cases — 'Electrifying the Rural Promise in Iowa…' The template still works.

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Request Demo
Electrifying the HIV Promise in Wisconsin…
Electrifying the HIV Promise in Wisconsin…
Speaking at the 29th annual AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin fund raiser gala in Milwaukee on May 2, 2015, ARCW CEO Mike Gifford electrified the crowd of over 900 people with very important news. With advanced technologies and real community commitment, ARCW has achieved an amazing 85% undetectable viral load for its patients, tops in the US. A PopulationManager® user, ARCW has leveraged its data to make a life-saving difference for over 3,300 HIV patients.
May 6, 2015
Spools 31 → 40

Reel Four

Method continuity — the harvest → align → transform spine, running eleven years deep.

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-03-17 forwardhealthgroup.com · news__meaningful.php/2013-03-17

Fresh Data = Safe Data

The 2013 equation that prefigures 'We Harvest Fresh Data®' by seven years. Equals-sign construction. Could anchor a HIPAA / security one-pager today without a single edit.

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MEASUREMENT TOOLS FOR PHYSICIANS
FOR ADMINISTRATORS
FOR PAYORS
FOR ACOS
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-06-19 forwardhealthgroup.com · dsrip/2015-06-19

Your DSRIP Data Can Fly

The federal-program dialect of 'Make your data fly.' The pattern transfers — 'Your v28 Data Can Fly,' 'Your CRG Data Can Fly,' 'Your Medi-Cal Data Can Fly.' Plug-and-play headline for any 2026 regulatory-shift Use Case.

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Contact
Your DSRIP Data Can Fly
We harvest health care data from all of your disparate data sources, transforming it into actionable metadata. No, really – any data, every source. We know how to do this. Remember, FHG pioneered the country’s first-ever public reporting initiative in 2004, the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality.
Let’s talk about your data. Challenge us. Get us on your calendar.
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · category__coverage/2015-04-06

Start with a Good Denominator

The single most foundational analytical claim FHG has ever made externally. Every downstream PopulationCompass conversation rests on it. Worth resurrecting as a Forwarded On the Square anchor.

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Madison health data company raises $5.7 million
Interpreting Healthcare Data: Start with a Good Denominator
Population Health Software How We’re Different
Evaluate Individual Patients
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-06-19 forwardhealthgroup.com · dsrip/2015-06-19

We will never sell your data. (Ask those other folks about that.)

Parenthetical-as-jab. The kind of aside that signals exactly what FHG isn't, without naming names. Still works — maybe more so now in the LLM-vendor scramble.

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Population Health Software How We’re Different
Evaluate Individual Patients
Identify Your Most At-Risk Patients
Move the Needle
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-06-19 forwardhealthgroup.com · dsrip/2015-06-19

A massive sea of disparate, transactional data that must be harvested, aligned, and transformed.

The harvest → align → transform triplet. Same DNA as today's Clinical Network discipline (Step 1 Raw Harvest → Step 2 NPPES Alignment → Step 3 Transform). Eleven-year continuity of method.

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PopulationMonitor™–Aggregate data to support the PPS and its management of the overall improvement journey of all stakeholders. Focus on population outcomes—clinical and financial.
Each PPS contains a massive sea of disparate, transactional data that must be harvested, aligned, and transformed.
Any data source.
Every EHR.
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · category__new-client/2015-04-06

Engine of a Major Quality Improvement Initiative

Self-positioning as engine, not platform. Three-word swap that does heavy work. Re-deployable in 2026 — 'PopulationCompass is the engine of [Cleveland Clinic / Molina WI / UCSF]\'s [v28 / CRG / risk-stratification] initiative.'

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With improved patient care and quality improvement as the goal, Newark Community Health Centers of Newark, NJ, Forward Health Group and The Guideline Advantage™ are working together. The Guideline Advantage is a quality improvement program of the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American...
02 May Advocate Medical Group Has Installed Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager® – Engine of a Major Quality Improvement Initiative
In an aggressive move towards improved patient care and quality improvement, Advocate Medical Group of Chicago, Illinois has installed Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager and The Guideline Advantage™. The Guideline Advantage is a quality improvement program of the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American...
Population Health Software How We’re Different
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · category__new-client/2015-04-06

Goes All In For Population Health

Verb-as-thesis. The all-in framing transfers cleanly to 2026's primary-care-forward moment — 'Mount Sinai Goes All In For CRG,' 'Children's Wisconsin Goes All In For Plan↔System.'

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Mile Square Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and a unit of the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System serving Chicago IL, is installing Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager and The Guideline Advantage™. The Guideline Advantage is a quality improvement program of...
23 Jun Albany Area Primary Health Care Goes All In For Population Health – Installs Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager®
Moving aggressively to improve outcomes, Albany Area Primary Health Care (AAPHC) has implemented Forward Health Group's PopulationManager and The Guideline Advantage™. The Guideline Advantage is a quality improvement program of the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association. The Guideline Advantage works...
21 May Newark Community Health Centers Drives Improved Outcomes – Inks Deal for Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager®
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · category__new-client/2015-04-06

Improves Control Rates 20%

A hard-number outcome from a named family-practice client (Dr. Mitchell S. Gittelman). This is the kind of receipt that lives forever — and the Control Rates construction (rather than outcomes or metrics) lands cleaner with clinicians.

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New Client
26 Mar Dr. Mitchell S. Gittelman Family Practice Installs FHG’s PopulationManager® – Improves Control Rates 20%
In a comprehensive effort to address heart disease and stroke, Dr. Mitchell S. Gittelman Family Practice of Salisbury, MD joined the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Improving Health Outcomes (IHO) initiative to focus on high blood pressure, a major contributor to cardiovascular disease. The IHO initiative is...
10 Mar Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group Joins National Effort to Reduce Heart Attacks and Strokes – Implements Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager®
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-05 forwardhealthgroup.com · the-health-data-consortium-and-fhg-liberated-data/2015-04-05

Liberated Data

Two-word noun-phrase. Politically resonant in 2026 — liberated from EHR captivity, liberated from vendor lock, liberated from claims-only blindness. Could anchor a Forwarded section title or a Use Case dialect.

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Mar 26 2015 The Health Data Consortium and FHG = Liberated Data
In a move to further the smart, imaginative, and open use of health data, Forward Health Group, Inc. has joined the Health Data Consortium (HDC). HDC is a public-private partnership working to foster the availability and innovative use of open health data to improve health and healthcare. FHG Founder/CEO Michael Barbouche said, “We’re all about helping to change the health care world – and the key to it all is the data. HDC is a great forum for that mission. We’re very pleased to participate.” Read more here .
Forward Health Group to Build War Chest – Transforming from Population Health to Population Wealth – Expanding to Non-Mammals
Dr. Mitchell S. Gittelman Family Practice Installs FHG’s PopulationManager® – Improves Control Rates 20%
The Health Data Consortium and FHG = Liberated Data
Coverage
KLAS Research
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Era 2 · Bridge child theme 2015-04-06 forwardhealthgroup.com · category__new-client/2015-04-06

The Client-Wins Roster (2014-2018)

Not a phrase but a documented receipts list. When a 2026 conversation needs proof of 'we've done this before, at scale, in real-world settings,' this is the list. Worth a one-pager on its own.

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Named client installations documented in the category__new-client archive, 2014-2018:
• Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
• Advocate Medical Group
• HealthLinc (FQHC)
• Albany Area Primary Health Care
• Newark Community Health Centers
• Ocean Health Initiatives
• Penobscot Community Health Care
• Mile Square Health Center
• Dr. Mitchell S. Gittelman Family Practice
• Spanish Catholic Center (Washington DC)
• OPEN DOOR Center for Change (Madison WI)
• ARC Community Services (Madison WI)

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Reel Five

Provenance layer. Address continuity, sub-brand archaeology, day-one receipts.

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-10-01 forwardhealthgroup.com · company__about_us.php/2013-10-01

The Health Care Measurement Company

The 2013-era footer self-definition. Definite-article framing. A 2026 echo would be 'The Health Care Reimbursement Arbiter' or 'The Health Care Data Bilingual Company' (lifting the canon line into a noun-phrase).

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Captured from 2013-2014 footer copy across multiple snapshots: "Forward Health Group, Inc. — The Health Care Measurement Company © 2014".

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-03-17 forwardhealthgroup.com · company__about_us.php/2013-10-01

Orange Papers + No boring white papers here — read an Orange Paper today!

Paired with Orange Data Peels from tier 3, this completes the orange-content-brand triad — Orange Papers for long-form, Orange Data Peels for the blog, the orange color itself for everything else. Twelve years of orange canon. Worth bringing both names back for Forwarded sub-sections or Use Case dialect names.

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Surfaced from the Patents & Trademarks Inventory: 'Orange Papers' was a 2013 white papers content brand. The exact line — 'No boring white papers here — read an Orange Paper today!' — was found in commented-out HTML on the 2013-era forwardhealthgroup.com pages.

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2014-01-01 betterdata.forwardhealthgroup.com · company__about_us.php/2013-10-01

Better Data

The 2014 five-pillar sub-brand that ran on its own subdomain. Direct lexical ancestor of 2022's Usable Data and 2023's health care data bilingual. Two-word noun-phrases that name FHG's reason-to-exist have been the company's most durable rhetorical move.

The five pillars of Better Data — surviving icons from the 2014 sub-brand
Orange crosshair icon — Better Data pillar one (Drive Precision), 2014 sub-brand.
Drive Precision.
Slate-blue infinity icon — Better Data pillar two (Drive Growth), 2014 sub-brand.
Drive Growth.
Navy network-nodes icon — Better Data pillar three (Drive Innovation), 2014 sub-brand.
Drive Innovation.
Sage-green upward-trend icon — Better Data pillar four (Drive Outcomes), 2014 sub-brand.
Drive Outcomes.
Orange sunburst icon — Better Data pillar five (Drive Engagement), 2014 sub-brand.
Drive Engagement.
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Per the Patents & Trademarks Inventory: 'Better Data' was a 2014 five-pillar sub-brand that ran on its own subdomain at betterdata.forwardhealthgroup.com — separate from the main site, replacing the earlier FHG Theatre marketing-video frame.

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2013-03-17 forwardhealthgroup.com · company__about_us.php/2013-10-01

Can Your Data Do This?™

Trademarked provocation. Question-as-pitch. Re-deployable verbatim on any 2026 Use Case landing strip — 'Can your data do this?' still works as the headline above any FHG-built visualization.

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From the Patents & Trademarks Inventory: 'Can Your Data Do This?™' appeared as a footer mark / FHG Theatre marketing-video frame in 2013-05 navigation, persisting into early 2014 before the Better Data sub-brand replaced FHG Theatre.

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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

a new, revolutionary, visualization platform from Forward Health Group that uses claims data for health network management, PopulationCompass® shows early promise, begins testing.

The literal first public mention of PopulationCompass®. Ten years ago this year. Worth a Forwarded On the Square on its tenth anniversary.

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2015 Fully engaged with the population health management market, Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager is, once again, top-rated by KLAS™. The company moves to its new location at 1 South Pinckney Street on Capitol Square in Madison, WI.
2016 With Forward Health Group’s proven data aggregation and curation technology, large public hospitals in California are able to maximize Medi-Cal 2020 PRIME’s improvement incentives. Also, a new, revolutionary, visualization platform from Forward Health Group that uses claims data for health network management, PopulationCompass® shows early promise, begins testing.
Leadership
What We Do
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

Michael Barbouche invited to the White House.

Eight-word sentence. Period. No flourish. The kind of fact that lives forever in a board-room footer or a federal-civilian conversation opener.

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2013 Forward Health Group is profiled in the KLAS Research™ initial Population Health Report as a vendor with “Proven Potential”. The company becomes proud sponsor of HIStalk. Partnered w/ American Medical Association to build Improving Health Outcomes network focused on hypertension, with primary focus on African American Males > 50 years & > 140/90. PopulationManager Action Lists leveraged to retool EHR workflows. PopulationManager spotlighted as “fuel for population health” in presentation at Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance Measurement and Improvement. Forward Health …
2014 KLAS Research™ names Forward Health Group a “High Performing Vendor” in the rapidly emerging population health management market and PopulationManager is the top-scoring product. Michael Barbouche invited to the White House. Forward Health Group achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Certification (Clifton Larsen Allen).
2015 Fully engaged with the population health management market, Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager is, once again, top-rated by KLAS™. The company moves to its new location at 1 South Pinckney Street on Capitol Square in Madison, WI.
2016 With Forward Health Group’s proven data aggregation and curation technology, large public hospitals in California are able to maximize Medi-Cal 2020 PRIME’s improvement incentives. Also, a new, revolutionary, visualization platform from Forward Health Group that uses claims data for health network management, PopulationCompass® shows early promise, begins testing.
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

(we lost to something called LiveYearbook)

The single best voice marker in the entire archive. Self-deprecating parenthetical attached to a 2010 2nd-place finish. This is the FHG voice — confident enough to tell on itself. Re-deployable any time the tone needs to be human. Han Solo, with a wry grin.

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Forward Health Group, Inc. founded by Michael Barbouche Forward Health Group launches the PopulationManager platform (ver 1.0). Secures its first enterprise health system client with an Epic EHR + 2x Care Management Platforms + 2x External Data Sources, 20 Performance Measures.
2010 The company launches PopulationManager ver 2.0. First Health Plan Client: 2x EHRs + 2x Claims Sources + 1x Disease Management Platform + 1x Care Coordination Platform, including 60 Performance Measures. Wins 2nd place (overall) in Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest (we lost to something called LiveYearbook).
2011 Forward Health Group creates a population health network focused on behavioral health. PopulationManager® (ver 3.0) is Meaningful Use Certified for all CMS Quality Measures. Establishes the measurement infrastructure for HeartRescue Project . Forward Health Group Measure Library is now > 200 Measures. PopulationManager® is registered as a trademark. Forward Health Group is now headquartered on Capitol Square in Madison.
2012 Forward Health Group is identified by HHS as a leading innovator in the country to advance ACOs. Michael Barbouche delivers a presentation in Washington, DC on a panel moderated by Atul Gawande. First patient-captured data source included in a PopulationManager implementation. Michael Barbouche delivers testimony HIT Policy and Standards Committee. Forward Health Group identified by White House as one of the most promising health care startups in country (“Startup America”). 5:30AM Breakfast Roundtable at HIMSS Las Vegas. Forward Health Group Measure Library grows to > 500 measures.
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

1 South Pinckney Street on Capitol Square

The literal origin of the New at Pinckney Forwarded column. Eleven years of address continuity — the Pinckney in New at Pinckney is the Pinckney in this 2015 announcement. Worth flagging next time the Forwarded section is built.

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2014 KLAS Research™ names Forward Health Group a “High Performing Vendor” in the rapidly emerging population health management market and PopulationManager is the top-scoring product. Michael Barbouche invited to the White House. Forward Health Group achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Certification (Clifton Larsen Allen).
2015 Fully engaged with the population health management market, Forward Health Group’s PopulationManager is, once again, top-rated by KLAS™. The company moves to its new location at 1 South Pinckney Street on Capitol Square in Madison, WI.
2016 With Forward Health Group’s proven data aggregation and curation technology, large public hospitals in California are able to maximize Medi-Cal 2020 PRIME’s improvement incentives. Also, a new, revolutionary, visualization platform from Forward Health Group that uses claims data for health network management, PopulationCompass® shows early promise, begins testing.
Leadership
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

Secures its first enterprise health system client with an Epic EHR + 2× Care Management Platforms + 2× External Data Sources, 20 Performance Measures.

Specificity-as-credibility. Not 'we launched and got our first customer' but the exact technical envelope of the deal. Plug-and-play structure for any 2026 install announcement.

The actual 2010-era PopulationManager v1.0 UI — three rollover thumbnails from the homepage carousel
Tiny 2010-era screenshot of PopulationManager v1.0 — a patient list table with Gender column and Last Test Result column showing LDL values.
Look — the patient list with LDL columns (Last Test Result).
Tiny 2010-era screenshot of PopulationManager v1.0 — an isometric rendering of data cubes arranged on a grid.
Data — the isometric data-cube visualization.
Tiny 2010-era screenshot of PopulationManager v1.0 — an orange line chart tracking a control-rate trend across five time points.
Reveal — a control-rate trend line. 38% · 42% · 42% · 40% · 43%.
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Transforming Data Into Outcomes Since 2009
Forward Health Group, Inc. founded by Michael Barbouche Forward Health Group launches the PopulationManager platform (ver 1.0). Secures its first enterprise health system client with an Epic EHR + 2x Care Management Platforms + 2x External Data Sources, 20 Performance Measures.
2010 The company launches PopulationManager ver 2.0. First Health Plan Client: 2x EHRs + 2x Claims Sources + 1x Disease Management Platform + 1x Care Coordination Platform, including 60 Performance Measures. Wins 2nd place (overall) in Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest (we lost to something called LiveYearbook).
2011 Forward Health Group creates a population health network focused on behavioral health. PopulationManager® (ver 3.0) is Meaningful Use Certified for all CMS Quality Measures. Establishes the measurement infrastructure for HeartRescue Project . Forward Health Group Measure Library is now > 200 Measures. PopulationManager® is registered as a trademark. Forward Health Group is now headquartered on Capitol Square in Madison.
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Era 3 · TargetWP child theme 2017-04-02 forwardhealthgroup.com · about-us/2017-04-02

Forward Health Group Measure Library is now > 200 Measures.

The quantified-asset language that prefigures today's Code Sets architecture (Y-Wing registry, B-Wing Rx Code Sets, Clinical Network X-Wing). Twelve years ago FHG already had a Measure Library as a named asset. Same architecture, three squadrons deep.

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2010 The company launches PopulationManager ver 2.0. First Health Plan Client: 2x EHRs + 2x Claims Sources + 1x Disease Management Platform + 1x Care Coordination Platform, including 60 Performance Measures. Wins 2nd place (overall) in Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest (we lost to something called LiveYearbook).
2011 Forward Health Group creates a population health network focused on behavioral health. PopulationManager® (ver 3.0) is Meaningful Use Certified for all CMS Quality Measures. Establishes the measurement infrastructure for HeartRescue Project . Forward Health Group Measure Library is now > 200 Measures. PopulationManager® is registered as a trademark. Forward Health Group is now headquartered on Capitol Square in Madison.
2012 Forward Health Group is identified by HHS as a leading innovator in the country to advance ACOs. Michael Barbouche delivers a presentation in Washington, DC on a panel moderated by Atul Gawande. First patient-captured data source included in a PopulationManager implementation. Michael Barbouche delivers testimony HIT Policy and Standards Committee. Forward Health Group identified by White House as one of the most promising health care startups in country (“Startup America”). 5:30AM Breakfast Roundtable at HIMSS Las Vegas. Forward Health Group Measure Library grows to > 500 measures.
2013 Forward Health Group is profiled in the KLAS Research™ initial Population Health Report as a vendor with “Proven Potential”. The company becomes proud sponsor of HIStalk. Partnered w/ American Medical Association to build Improving Health Outcomes network focused on hypertension, with primary focus on African American Males > 50 years & > 140/90. PopulationManager Action Lists leveraged to retool EHR workflows. PopulationManager spotlighted as “fuel for population health” in presentation at Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance Measurement and Improvement. Forward Health …
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Reel Six

The Receipts. Hard outcomes that live only in the archive — sub-brands gone from the live web, pages retired in the WordPress migrations, named-clinician quotes preserved nowhere else.

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Era 1 · Hand-built XHTML 2014-01-25 betterdata.forwardhealthgroup.com · p4b/__root__/2014-01-25

For five years we tried to move the needle on cervical screening rates for our high risk HIV population with no success. With PopulationManager®, we have advanced from 37% to 80% in four months. — Dr. John Fangman, Medical Director, ARCW

The single strongest data outcome in the entire archive — and it lives only here, on the dead betterdata sub-brand homepage. Five years of trying. Four months to move 37 → 80 on cervical screening in a high-risk HIV population. This is the receipt behind phrase #30 (Electrifying the HIV Promise in Wisconsin…) and the NGA / Walker Trick memo. Direct quote from the Medical Director of the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin — Dr. John Fangman, whose name remains canonical to FHG's HIV-care thread. Pair with phrase #38 (Improves Control Rates 20%) when the conversation needs both a primary-care and a specialty-care receipt at the same time.

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It’s time to move the needle on your outcomes – your data can do that. With the right population health data partner, you can leverage your practice’s data to drive payor contracting and drive the performance measures most equated with financial success.
“For five years we tried to move the needle on cervical screening rates for our high risk HIV population with no success. With PopulationManager ® , we have advanced from 37% to 80% in four months.”
Dr. John Fangman, Medical Director, ARCW (AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin)
Drive Engagement.