Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2020.26155
Jennifer Zwicker
{"title":"Value for Who? Value-Based Healthcare for Children and Families.","authors":"Jennifer Zwicker","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2020.26155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2020.26155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If the goal of \"value-based healthcare\" (VBHC) is to promote health, the shift towards health promotion as fostering resilience of individuals through supportive systems and environments is grounded in the importance of providing value or outcomes that matter to all patients. VBHC puts patients at the centre of healthcare, but critical questions include which patients and what services? Here we explore the importance of life-course considerations of a resilience-based definition of health and consider the role of a broader horizontal and vertical system and individual level integration to attain VBHC for children and families.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"48-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37850992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2020.26154
Richard Lewanczuk, Anderson Chuck, Kathryn Todd, Verna Yiu
{"title":"Value in Healthcare: Designing an Integrated Value-Based Healthcare System.","authors":"Richard Lewanczuk, Anderson Chuck, Kathryn Todd, Verna Yiu","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2020.26154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2020.26154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Value-based healthcare (VBHC) can be interpreted in many ways depending on one's jurisdiction. Often it is used synonymously with cost-effectiveness. In Alberta, VBHC might more appropriately be termed \"values-based healthcare.\" This reflects our belief that a healthcare system should meet the needs and desires of its population and contribute to overall wellness. We therefore developed a framework based on the dimensions of quality, the Quadruple Aim and feasibility considerations, which enables us to assess and measure our system activities and initiatives to determine if they are in keeping with VBHC in the Alberta context.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"59-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37851433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2020.26153
Peter W Vaughan
{"title":"Rushing the Value Cockpit.","authors":"Peter W Vaughan","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2020.26153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2020.26153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 2015 merger of health authorities in Nova Scotia was aggressive in pursuit of greater value. The goal was to create an integrated, accountable care network across the entire province. Years of pent-up frustration, death by a thousand cuts, declining service and growing expectations merged into a slow, insidious bleeding of support for change. The lessons learned from Nova Scotia are vital to achieving a value-based health system. The article describes some of the barriers to progress and the steps needed to achieve the goal of a value-based healthcare system for Canadians.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"65-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37851434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2020.26159
Sarah Downey, Sandra McKay, Patrick Feng
{"title":"Towards Value in an Integrated Care Environment: Early Lessons from an Ontario Health Team.","authors":"Sarah Downey, Sandra McKay, Patrick Feng","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2020.26159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2020.26159","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Integrated healthcare models are being experimented with in many jurisdictions as a way to improve patient care and lower system costs. This commentary presents early lessons from one Ontario Health Team as it works towards new models of care. The authors recount early discussions on developing an integrated health services network, how funding for \"winter surge initiatives\" became an opportunity to test ideas and how these experiences are informing current planning. Some of the early lessons learned include the value of trusted relationships, moving care upstream and framing problems as collective challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"11-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37850993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2019.26032
Lucshman Raveendran, Martin Koyle, Mary Brindle
{"title":"Developing a Value-Based Approach to Outcome Reporting in Pediatric Surgery.","authors":"Lucshman Raveendran, Martin Koyle, Mary Brindle","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2019.26032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The population that undergoes pediatric surgical procedures in high-resource settings such as Canada primarily comprises healthy patients who undergo low-risk, elective surgeries and fewer higher-risk patients who require more complex surgeries. Given this variability, there is a relatively low incidence of traditionally measured \"critical\" outcomes within any single pediatric surgical system or even pediatric surgical subspecialty, rendering the currently available quality measurement tools inadequate to provide sensitive measures of quality. In an era when scalable solutions are required to improve health outcomes across entire populations, there is an urgent need for more holistic measures of a child's well-being to benchmark and measure changes in quality of care. This article discusses opportunities for enhanced performance measurement in pediatric surgery using a value-based framework to identify and measure patient and family outcomes of importance over the full care cycle, from initial presentation through surgery and recovery to sustainability of health. In suggesting new avenues for performance measurement, we highlight how these measures can be used to develop, evaluate and refine surgical system innovations such as bundled care pathways and perioperative care homes.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"18 4","pages":"20-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37511196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2019.26034
Jason M Sutherland
{"title":"Using Data to Move from Volume to Value.","authors":"Jason M Sutherland","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2019.26034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across Canada's provinces and territories, healthcare policy discussions are often focused on the attributes of the health services delivery system that are most easily measured and monitored. The obvious examples are spending growth, number of beds and wait times. In turn, this orientation tends to induce a focus on the volume of healthcare rather than its value. Yet it is increasingly clear that value from healthcare improves when patients' health goals are prioritized and addressed in a cost-efficient and effective manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"18 4","pages":"4-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37510801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2019.26028
Sabrina T Wong, Sharon Johnston, Fred Burge, Kim McGrail
{"title":"Value in Primary Healthcare - Measuring What Matters?","authors":"Sabrina T Wong, Sharon Johnston, Fred Burge, Kim McGrail","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2019.26028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High-performing and equitable healthcare systems are influenced by the strength of primary healthcare (PHC), which means that there should be special attention on this sector because we are changing how we monitor and improve overall care. Comprehensive data are the foundation for actionable information and are urgently needed in PHC because of the heterogeneity in both the demographics and the healthcare needs of the populations served. An ideal information system would combine multiple data sources such as electronic medical records (EMRs), administrative data and patient-reported information, drawing on the strengths of each to develop a comprehensive view of PHC. The purpose of this commentary is to draw attention to data gaps and offer suggestions about where and how this information could be obtained. Linked patient experience, EMRs and administrative data could be used in a learning health system to support decisions at the practice level and the jurisdictional level, where resources (financial and human) can be deployed to improve the quality of care, particularly when care is needed across sectors. The information gained from the analysis of these data are of high value for clinician/practice quality improvement efforts and for regional and jurisdictional health system planning and resource allocation.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"18 4","pages":"58-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37511200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2019.26030
Kerry Kuluski, Sara J T Guilcher
{"title":"Toward a Person-Centred Learning Health System: Understanding Value from the Perspectives of Patients and Caregivers.","authors":"Kerry Kuluski, Sara J T Guilcher","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2019.26030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What matters most to people who use healthcare? What matters to their caregivers? How do we use this information to support ongoing quality improvement in the healthcare system? In this paper, we explore three concepts from the current healthcare discourse, intended to drive health system improvements: person-centred care, value-based healthcare and learning health systems. We propose that key tenets from each of these concepts should be combined to create a person-centred learning health system (PC-LHS). We highlight two key points: First, in achieving a PC-LHS, the experiences, priorities and values of patients and their caregivers should be continually collected and fed into data systems to monitor ongoing quality improvement and performance benchmarking. Second, the information collected in determining value must include important contextual factors - including the social determinants of health - as patient health and well-being outcomes will ultimately be shaped by these factors, in addition to health system and disease factors. In summary, improving value for patients and caregivers, by capturing the things that matter most to them, within their life contexts, needs to be part of the continuous quality improvement cycle that lies at the heart of a learning health system.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"18 4","pages":"36-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37511198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2019.26033
Fred Horne, Rachael Manion
{"title":"A Made-in-Canada Approach to Value-Based Healthcare.","authors":"Fred Horne, Rachael Manion","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2019.26033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare reforms that do not address outcomes of importance to patients may not be poised to successfully deliver the ultimate objectives of improved outcomes and quality of life for patients. Value-based healthcare is a distinct approach to aligning diverse health-system stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, health system administrators and the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries, on delivering outcomes that matter to patients at the same or lower cost. This article examines existing pan-Canadian infrastructure, including quality improvement and data initiatives, to demonstrate a path forward for this international healthcare transformation movement in Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"18 4","pages":"10-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37511195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Healthcare PapersPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2019.26031
Kendall Jamieson Gilmore, Francesca Pennucci, Sabina De Rosis, Claudio Passino
{"title":"Value in Healthcare and the Role of the Patient Voice.","authors":"Kendall Jamieson Gilmore, Francesca Pennucci, Sabina De Rosis, Claudio Passino","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2019.26031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A prevailing feature of recent healthcare delivery and reform initiatives is a focus on increasing the value provided by investment in services, alongside a more nuanced understanding of how such value should be considered. Effective measurement of this value remains an elusive goal for most health system performance assessment (HSPA) systems. A more prominent role for the patient voice can enable a better understanding of value at both patient and population levels. The Tuscan HSPA model has evolved over the past several years by adopting the perspective of service users, including multiple dimensions of performance, and illustrating the interactions of these elements. For the heart failure pathway, this approach has now been further developed to combine these dimensions with the systematic electronic collection of patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures - initially in a specialist hospital. This enables a richer understanding of the value delivered by professionals as they operate in reality, as opposed to by organizational boundaries, and more timely and actionable insights into the drivers of that value. This commentary sets out the latest developments in the Tuscan HSPA and the lessons from implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"18 4","pages":"28-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12927/hcpap.2019.26031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37511197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}