Kaiser Permanente, other heavy hitters call for value-based healthcare model
Healthcare DIVE April 27, 2017
Dive Brief:
- Representatives from Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Novartis, Qualcomm Life, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, as well as the minister of health of the Netherlands, the chief executive officer of the National Health Service in England and Harvard’s Michael Porter, are all calling for the change in healthcare.
- Going to a value-based healthcare system puts the patient at the center of care and focuses on outcomes, the officials said.
- The health leaders made the announcement the same time that the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group, released a report, “Value in Healthcare: Laying the Foundation for Health-System Transformation.”
Dive Insight:
Value-based healthcare is a popular and growing model aiming to move patient care from a...