Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS
Clinical and Research Fellow in Nephrology at BWH/MGH
PGY-5
01/31/2020
I attended the Value-Based Healthcare Delivery (VBHD) course
at the Harvard Business School through a Centers of Expertise grant in January
2020. I’m currently a research fellow in nephrology focused on cost-effective
care delivery in end-stage kidney disease and attended the course to better
understand physician perception of value in our healthcare system. The course
was an immersive experience in healthcare delivery with a focus on how varying
healthcare organizations have innovated to adapt to changing payment systems in
the face of budgetary constraints.
It was important for me to see an alternative perspective to
measuring value. In the field of decision sciences and cost-effectiveness, we
often consider value as dollars/quality-adjusted life years. VBHD flips the
script, defining value as outcome/costs. While primarily borne out of
legislative requirements, it has created an organization of researchers deeply
interested in improving the measurement of outcomes and cost to understand
where targeted strategies would provide value.
I highly recommend the conference to anyone interested in
challenging the status quo. It provided me with a new toolkit to evaluate care
delivery in the field of nephrology and to consider costs, as opposed to
charges, in my future research in health care.
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