Patient Engagement May 9, 2017
Healthcare leaders should develop value-based care measures that are patient-centric and assess what is important to health consumers.
The healthcare industry must make value-based care assessments more patient-centric, ensuring that value measures consider variables that are important to patients, stated a pair of industry leaders in a Health Affairs op-ed.
As patients increasingly face higher financial responsibility for their own healthcare, patients will need this value information to make more informed decisions about treatments and where they access care, said Alan Balch, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation, and Darius Lakdawalla, the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California.
“From a pragmatic perspective, it is time to...