ICHOM Master Classes

Advance your career by becoming an
ICHOM Certified High-Value Health Care Professional

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I am thrilled that we are launching the ICHOM Certified High-Value Health Care Professional Certificate Program. It will empower you with new ways of thinking and give you the skills you need to close gaps and scale high value transformations. I hope you’ll consider enrolling with our awesome team!"

Elizabeth Teisberg, Ph.D.

Co-Author of Redefining Health Care

About the Certificate Program

From the world’s leading experts in high-value health care, ICHOM brings you a unique opportunity to build outcome measurement and transformation skills.

Developed by faculty behind Dartmouth College’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science and the University of Texas at Austin’s Master of Science in Health Care Transformation programs, the certificate program uses cases and implementation frameworks that have been demonstrated to equip participants with actionable skills and insights.

While the program is rooted in the concepts of Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg’s groundbreaking 2006 book, Redefining Health Care, it goes far beyond theory and deeply into the practice of high-value transformation.

The program is designed for a broad spectrum of experienced health care professionals and participants who will benefit from the multiple perspectives represented in each cohort.

The ICHOM Certified High-Value Health Care Professional program will teach you the HOW TO skills of health care transformation.

HOW TO:

Reveal the gaps in health outcomes that are the starting point for health care innovation.

HOW TO:

Use health outcome improvement to take costs out of the system.

HOW TO:

Identify the outcomes that matter most to patients and families and the innovation opportunities to improve these outcomes.

HOW TO:

Design solutions to patients’ health needs that support their goals and desired health outcomes, as well as clinicians’ professional experiences.

HOW TO:

Use ICHOM Measure Sets to measure the outcomes that matter, and use those insights to drive ongoing improvement.

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Accurately measure costs and design sustainable bundled payment models.

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Build a strategy that supports scaling of health care innovations.

More questions? Connect with the ICHOM Education team

Who should attend?

Advance your purpose and the purpose of health care. Aim your work at the reason you chose this career. This program is designed for people who want to develop a thorough, practical basis for implementing, leading, or supporting Value-Based Health Care programs.

Participants must have a minimum of five years of professional experience in their respective fields.

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Program Structure

Cost: US$ 2,500

Length of program: ~15 Weeks

Time Commitment: ~50 hours

Registration will open in October 2024.

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The certificate program consists of five Master Classes, the content of which builds from class to class. Each class lasts 3 weeks and requires approximately 10 hours of time commitment.

Each class involves three components:

Independent Learning

Each Master Class begins with self-guided learning that enables participants to efficiently discover key aspects of high-value health care implementation and create a shared basis for the Roundtables. These resources include video lectures, proprietary implementation frameworks, articles, and other learning assets that participants can review at their leisure and their own pace.

Roundtables (Leadership Discussions)

Each Master Class has two live, Zoom-based interactive discussion sessions facilitated by the program’s award-winning faculty. These 90-minute discussions center around a case study of a successful health care transformation. Participants can immediately begin applying their insights and practicing the skills needed to transform health care and meet other participants who share their experiences and aspirations.

Reflection

Each Master Class will conclude with a reflection or application exercise bolstering the participant’s skillset. This exercise provides an opportunity for participants to reflect on their newly developed skills and insights, and to get feedback from faculty.

Schedule

The program is structured in cohorts, each lasting approximately 15 weeks. The first cohort will begin in January 2025. Additional cohorts will be added and announced soon.

2025 Cohort Dates:

Master Class Descriptions

Participants who complete the program requirements will receive a signed certificate designating them an ICHOM Certified High-Value Health Care Professional.

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Successful health care transformation requires dramatic improvement in individuals’ and families’ health care outcomes achieved for the money spent. Participants will learn how to center patients in a fundamental way using the proprietary Experience Group® research methodology, and how better health outcomes can take costs out of the health care system.

Measuring meaningful outcomes enables leaders to improve the health outcomes that matter most to individuals and families. It also unmasks unwarranted variations and disparities in care so they can be reduced. Using Teisberg and Wallace’s Capability, Comfort, and Calm framework, this Master Class teaches the fundamentals of outcome measurement, including how to begin implementing the ICHOM Measure Sets and analyzing data to accelerate learning by clinical teams.

Value in health care is created when health care solutions effectively address people’s health challenges and improve the outcomes that matter most to patients and families. With case examples focused on redefining chronic disease care for vulnerable patients, this Master Class teaches the essential elements of designing health solutions that close gaps in care and achieve outcomes that matter to patients.

Advancing value, the change in outcomes that matter most for the costs of achieving those outcomes, requires the ability to measure the outcomes that matter most to patients as well as the costs of that care solution. Likewise, moving beyond fee-for-service and global capitation reimbursement models requires the ability to construct viable bundled payment arrangements that align medical and financial success and support the professionalism of clinicians. This Master Class offers an introduction to time-driven, activity based costing and to key principles needed to construct durable bundled payment arrangements.

While most health care organizations have a strategic plan, relatively few have a clear strategy. Strategy encompasses the activities and trade-offs an organization chooses that enables it to serve the unique needs of its patients. This Master Class teaches participants how to build, assess, and improve strategy to enable the scaling of health care innovations that is necessary for delivering high-value health care for all. Participants discover how to create a value-based strategy that improves outcomes and enables growth and scaling of high-value solutions.

Teaching Team

Scott Wallace
J.D., MBA

Kathleen Carberry
R.N., MPH

Andrew Well M.D.,
MPH, MSHCT

Alice Andrews,
Ph.D.

Education Team

Audrey Walter

Brendan Hardy

First-In-Class Network

Learn from the world class faculty and originators of value-based care who previously stood-up elite master degree programs for health care transformation at Dartmouth College and UT Austin Dell Medical School.

Join the network of health care leaders and organizations who are utilizing ICHOM High Value Health Care Certificate program concepts and implementation frameworks to scale solutions that close gaps, improve outcomes that matter most, and lower costs.

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