On Data and Informatics For Value-Based Healthcare

This article seeks to demonstrate that the role of data and informatics in supporting value-based care goes much further than the collection and remote analysis of big datasets – in fact, the true benefit sits much closer to the interaction between clinician and patient. Data collection – costing and outcomes Costing Costing of healthcare for value should be done for the whole patient journey. This is important as it is not possible for value to be created in a service alone – it has to be assessed in terms of the outcomes delivered relative to the investment in all possible interventions for a particular population, whether this is a finite episode of care such as a cataract pathway or the costs attached to a population living with a chronic disease such as Parkinson’s disease. In the latter case, we can take a ‘year of care’ approach to the costing, recognising that there are subpopulations with varying needs within the overall caseload. It is very important to identify these cohorts of patients so that their unmet needs can be characterised and quantified. All too often we adopt a ‘one size fits all’ service for all groups resulting in no-one’s needs being entirely met and creating a really unsatisfactory experience for patients and their carers. Outcome data, including patient-reported outcomes, can inform this. Improving value for patients through improving outcomes and containing costs can only be achieved throu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Uncategorized Data Informatics International United Kingdom value-based care Source Type: blogs