Resources

Knowledge resources to build capacity and foster better understanding of value-based healthcare. Scroll down to discover the latest publications, courses and more!

Publications

  • How value-based healthcare focuses on maximizing patient outcomes and harnessing resources

    Article by World Economic Forum


    This article defines value-based healthcare as value in healthcare is the health outcomes that matter to patients relative to the resources or costs required to deliver those outcomes.

  • Changing the mass casualty disaster surgical response

    Article by Lancet

    This article calls for better collaboration between the disaster management authority and health ministry to develop mobile surgical facilities, portable surgical and medical kits, and anaesthesia units to respond to mass surgical response.

  • Value-Based Health Care for Children with Congenital Heart Diseases: A Feasibility Study from a Low–Middle Income Country

    Article by NEJM Catalyst

    In this article, the authors aim to address the feasibility of implementing a VBHC model for patients with CHD in Pakistan through multiple initiatives taken over time at a single tertiary care center.

  • What Is Value-Based Healthcare?

    Short article by NEJM Catalyst

    Explore the definition, benefits, and examples of value-based healthcare. How does value-based healthcare translate to new delivery models?

  • Building a Value-Based Care Infrastructure in Europe: The Health Outcomes Observatory

    Commentary, NEJM Catalyst

    Leaders at the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative are developing a large-scale multi-stakeholder international ecosystem to incorporate patient-reported outcomes and measures to improve patient engagement and drive value.

  • It takes two to dance the VBHC tango: A multiple case study of the adoption of value-based strategies in Sweden and Brazil

    Article in Social Science & Medicine

    Read more about the application of VBHC in real-world contexts. This comparative case study of two prominent adopters in Brazil and Sweden, situated at either end of the spectrum in terms of contextual prerequisites, provides insights into the complex interactions involved in the adoption of VBHC strategies.

  • Defining and Implementing Value-Based Health Care: A Strategic Framework

    Article in Academic Medicine

    This article measures the health outcomes and costs of its care for each patient and uses that information to drive ongoing improvements. Authors suggest principles and implementation of VBHC should be incorporated care throughout the undergraduate medical curriculum.

  • Patient-Reported Outcome Measures May Add Value in Breast Cancer Surgery

    Article in Annals of Surgical Oncology

    Learn more about the role of PROMs in improving outcomes. The scores serve as a reference value for different types of surgery in the study population and enable prospective use of PROs in shared decision-making.

Courses

  • Erasmus Value-Based Healthcare Course

  • University of Houston Value-Based Care Specialization

  • Rethinking health: The fundamentals of value-based healthcare

More coming soon!

Observatories

  • Health outcomes observatory

    H2O is a strategic partnership between the public and private sectors to create a robust data governance and infrastructure model to collect and incorporate patient outcomes at scale into healthcare decision making at an individual and population level.

  • Global cancer observatory

    The Global Cancer Observatory (GCO) is an interactive web-based platform presenting global cancer statistics to inform cancer control and research.

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