While reviewing policy and regulatory frameworks is indeed critical to enable and promote the transition to a value-based healthcare model, there is another important factor to consider.
Dr. Tamara Sunbul, medical director of clinical informatics at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Saudi Arabia, demonstrated at HIMSS24 APAC what a successful value-based population health program looks like. She spoke at the session: “Smart hospitals, shaping population health and value-based care with digital mastery.”
“It’s not just the doctors, it’s not just the nurses, it’s not just the hospitals,” she said of Johns Hopkins Aramco’s CarePlus program. That program was shown to achieve and exceed targeted patient experience and health outcomes through multi-stakeholder collaboration.
“It’s really the community, the governments, everyone coming together to make this happen. It’s about creating green spaces, sports facilities and wellbeing programs.”
“We need collaborations, like private-public partnerships, to evolve value-based care models. You can’t do that in isolation. You can’t just do this as a health care system. You need your community and everyone to be together,” says Dr. Sunbul emphasizes.
However, she asserted that reviewing policies and regulations and aligning payment methods are all important in pursuing a value-based care model at the healthcare systems level.
“If you’re only going to compensate people for when they see a patient in the hospital, how is that going to help? No one is ever going to do public health because that requires compensating people for the time they spend providing care and preventing disease. start with.”
“The current way of getting (hospitals) paid to make a profit for someone who visits a hospital…must change if we want to improve population health and implement value-based care,” she urged.