Rewriting the Rules of the Game in Health Care
To deliver improved value to patients, national health systems must rethink their approach to health sector governance.
To deliver improved value to patients, national health systems must rethink their approach to health sector governance.
In less than two years, seven hospitals in the Netherlands substantially improved health outcomes while delivering better value.
BCG has identified the six most effective steps that provider organizations can use to implement a value-based operating model and accelerate the rate of change.
Munich City Hospital had to consolidate to avoid bankruptcy. The hospital’s strategy was to focus on delivering the highest quality of care.
Texas Health Resources is developing bundled offerings that are comprehensive in coverage and transparent in terms of pricing and outcomes.
Terveystalo, Finland’s leading private health-care service provider, is turning the systematic collection of health outcomes metrics into a competitive advantage.
For academic medical centers, increased focus on measuring and understanding patient outcomes comes with an added benefit: better connections between research and health care delivery.
As more and more of the world's health-care providers focus on delivering high-quality care, the movement to standardize outcomes metrics is growing.
Different hospitals produce different results on different procedures. Yet patients don’t have access to that data, which makes choosing a surgeon a high-stakes guessing game. Stefan Larsson looks at what happens when doctors measure and share their outcomes. Could health care get better—and cheaper—if doctors learned from each other?
Big data and advanced analytics provide a truly value-oriented way to understand health. Three high-potential opportunities in particular could measurably improve outcomes.
A new focus on value is fundamentally changing the terms of competition in the health care market. The winners will be organizations that compete on outcomes.
Jens Deerberg-Wittram reflects on the inaugural year of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement—an organization that is driving the global adoption of value-based health care.
Targeting better health outcomes is the key to sustainable health reform—both to improve the quality of care and to curb excess health-care spending.
Which countries are positioned best to adopt value-based health care? BCG assessed the health systems of 12 developed-world countries to find out.
By Elisabeth Hansson, Brett Spencer, James Kent, Jennifer Clawson, Heino Meerkatt, and Stefan Larsson