A population health strategy is essential as the healthcare industry transitions to value-based care. However, for ambulatory practices, putting a population health strategy into operation remains a challenge. Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a steady growth in population health over time, but recent events—the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting health crises—call for provider organizations to accelerate their use of population health strategies and tools to optimally match risk-based levels of care required by patients with available healthcare resources. To fully understand the challenges and best practices for population health adoption in ambulatory care, NextGen Healthcare commissioned Xtelligent Healthcare Media to survey leaders of ambulatory medical practices. The survey is the second in a series to monitor health IT adoption in ambulatory facilities. This report emphasized population health solutions to understand the technology’s relationship with overall health IT strategies and the challenges to putting population-health-specific solutions into operation. 1. Delivering clinical insights is the most important capability sought in population health solutions.