Search Tag: Porter

Health Management

Award-winning-diabetes-clinic-with-vbhc-approach

2017 21 Aug

Diabeter explains how a focus on best outcomes leads to cost reductions and an ‘Olympic’ team   The 2017 Value-Based Healthcare (VBH C) Award, organised by the VBH C Center, Europe, saw 14 outstanding initiatives presented, but it was Diabeter that took the first prize.   Diabeter is a patient-centric, Dutch-certified clinic network that...Read more

Health Management

Value-based-healthcare-in-2017

2017 16 Feb

Porter and Teisberg introduced value-based healthcare (VBHC) in their seminal 2006 book, Redefining Health Care. At the time, several sceptics raised questions about the evidence and practicality of its prescriptions. One reviewer noted, “There are few data to support their concepts. … no one has tried anything like the approaches they suggest.” A...Read more

Health Management

Four-steps-within-your-stride-surprising-insights-from-implementing-value-based-care-delivery

2017 16 Feb

Around the world, value-based care delivery is gaining adherents (New Zealand Ministry of Health 2016; King’s Health Partners 2016). Improving value—health outcomes that matter to patients for the cost of delivering those outcomes—is now widely recognised as a critical objective of health care reform. Since the publication of Redefining health care (Porter...Read more