“Value-based health is an integrated approach that puts the patient and the physician at the center of health care, ensuring quality and sustainability, strengthening health systems, and consequently having a positive impact on society.”

 

In an opinion article for Jornal Económico, Luísa Lima elaborates on how, in today’s world, the sustainability of a business is based on a customer-centric approach, providing quality products and/or services, which meet or even exceed their expectations and seek their satisfaction. By applying this same vision, to the health sector, the patient is the client and the provision of health care is the service.

 

In this exercise, Luísa asks the reader to consider a value-based health model, as a way to ensure quality and sustainability, focusing on both the patient and the physician in a dialogue that results in the delivery of quality health care. This ensures patient safety and value and strengthens health systems thereby having a positive impact on society.

 

The head of Operations of Value for Health CoLABof highlights that the concept of Value-Based Health Care, – the health outcomes achieved for every dollar spent – introduced by Michael Porter in 2006, has been gaining increasing attention, not only because of rising health care costs around the world but also because of the variability in health outcomes for the same treatment when comparing identical patient populations.

 

Do healthcare models need to change? In a world where the health care industry has been rewarded based on the volume of health care provided, whether or not it is needed, rather than based on level of patient health, do you think that a shift of Value Measurement in Health is fundamental for the future and sustainability of the health sector?

 

 

Read the full article (original) in Portuguese here.

Source: Jornal Económico