Value Based Healthcare Course

Elzerie De Jager, MD

Lead Fellow Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

PGY 4 (1 Year clinical training, 2.5 Year postdoctoral fellowship)

01/22/2020

Thank you to the COE for allowing Partners Trainee’s like myself with the opportunity to complete the Harvard Business Schools’ Value Based Healthcare Course. The three-day course brings trainees from the hospital wards, the research labs and the administrative offices together.

 

CSPH and PROVE Fellows. 

The course taught us about creating value in healthcare, measuring outcomes that matter to patients and working in integrated practise units (IPU’s). At the core concept of IPU’s are engineering healthcare/teams around the patients’ needs rather than expecting a patient to fit into the traditional healthcare delivery model.

During the course presenters discussed collaborations between administrators, clinical staff and researchers to drive projects related to value-based healthcare. Just like an IPU being engineered around a patient these researchers had engineered a team around their research topic.

In many institutions’ trainees are separated into their respective areas with little interaction. Rarely do research, clinical and administrative trainees interact or collaborate. That is something that we can change!