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Learn an evidence based approach to measuring health outcomes against the cost of delivery, driving forward meaningful change for patients.
Handling the increasing pressures on healthcare systems along with delivering value is an issue of increasing concern to health managers. Despite this, Value-Based Health Care is a concept that is widely misunderstood and poorly applied.
A framework focused on creating value for patients, Value-Based Health Care identifies value by reducing costs while driving improved health outcomes for patients. Rooted in evidence, it measures health outcomes against the cost of delivering them. Ultimately, it prevents investment in areas that will not generate value for patients, thus saving healthcare organisations money.
This course delivers participants an in depth understanding of Value-Based Health Care, value-based payments and decision science. Providing both knowledge and the fundamentals of applying key tools, this course will equip you with highly practical skills that can be applied directly to the workplace.
Who the programme is for
Our Value-Based Health Care short course is for leaders across the health and healthcare sector, who have a need to advance their understanding of Value-Based Health Care. You may work in human resources, in a clinical setting, policymaking or healthcare management. Or you may work in an industry related to health that requires an understanding of Value-Based Health Care.
Programme curriculum
This course is based on a contextualised approach to learning, with online lectures delivered by the course lead and UCL academics. This is supplemented by reading, participant discussion questions and marked assignments. Much of the learning will be directed through real world case studies from your course lead, who is an expert in Value-Based Health Care.
You’ll learn material paced across three modules over a total of six weeks. Each module involves approximately 10 to 12 hours of content, which includes videos, reading and discussion forum activities. A weekly session with the course instructors also provides an opportunity to pull learning together and get involved in group discussion.
Throughout the course, you will complete self-reflection exercises to help you work through the material. To receive a certificate of completion for this course, you will complete all the marked assignments for each week.
Modules
- Module 1: Introduction to Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) and outcomes measurement
Providing an introduction to Value-Based Health Care, this module evaluates historic and current definitions of value. You will look in more depth at where the global adoption of Value-Based Health Care, and learn about the current landscape in relation to the issues facing commissioners and decision makers.
- Module 2: Decision Science for Value-Based Health Care
Decision science affects how Value-Based Health Care can be achieved within healthcare settings, and this module explores decision science in more depth. Module content includes how choices are made, evidence, and population-based decisions.
- Module 3: Value-based payments
Focusing on the practicalities of Value-Based Health Care, this module looks in more detail at value-based payments. This includes reimbursement models, outcome-based payments and pricing innovations to get market access.
