Reducing health care costs, while improving quality and safety, is the goal. Driving toward value-based care, through value analysis and cost reduction, is today’s challenge. How can we generate value for patients, providers, and payers alike?
How two thought leaders in the fields of home-based medical care, geriatrics, and palliative medicine advanced a quality-of-care agenda for homebound adults.
Interoperability is a business imperative for enhancing value in health care, and providers and payers must collaboratively meet the demands for data exchange.
When done right, value-based contracting for medical devices can ameliorate shrinking margins at health systems, leading to a virtuous circle.
Leaders are finding that making higher-value choices easier through subtle changes to choice architecture can have an outsized impact on medical decision-making.
We should modernize our payment mechanisms to reflect the reality of our digitally enabled lives.
Innovative models are showing promise, but limited transparency and peer-reviewed research hamper expansion.
NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say that while transparency might be necessary, we have to change the way care is delivered.
Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin has improved outcomes and reduced costs for musculoskeletal care with a multidisciplinary Musculoskeletal Institute and bundled payment model.
Health care costs have historically grown at about 2% faster than income in the United States. One way or another, we have to control health care spending growth, and the onus is on the provider.
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