Value-Based Healthcare Project Implementation in a Hierarchical Tertiary Hospital: Lessons Learned.

ABSTRACT: An important innovation in healthcare is the value-based healthcare (VBHC) framework, a way to solve health services' sustainability problems and ensure continuous improvement of healthcare quality. The Quality and Safety Unit at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre has been since May 2018 coordinating the implementation of several healthcare innovation projects within the paradigm of VBHC. Implementing innovations in a complex institution, such as a tertiary hospital, is a challenge; we present here the lessons learned in the last 4 years of work. We detail exclusively the aspects related to continuous improvement and value addition to the process. In summary, for any VBHC project implementation, we found that there are five main issues: (1) adequate data quality; (2) development of d

SUBMITTER: Varela-Rodriguez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8850702 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature