Connecting Digitisation and Value-Based Healthcare

Value in healthcare is defined as the relation of patient-relevant outcomes achieved in comparison to the patient-level costs. While value-based healthcare (VBHC) is considered the most promising guiding principle for the new generation of health services, it implies radical, even disruptive, changes to the current practice. Despite each healthcare system having an individual status in digitization progress, there is little doubt that digitization also accelerates the transformation speed of healthcare systems across the globe.

The growing consumerization of healthcare and patient empowerment caused an exponential growth in healthcare apps and tools development and raised the questions of their safety and effectiveness. The potential inclusion into standard medical care requires a holistic approach of assessment and selection for these solutions.

Value-based healthcare principles offer the base for the required work needed for the shortcomings of the current regulatory frameworks. They define value as a shared goal for all stakeholders.