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December 2015: Implementation Update

Momentum continues to build around the world with institutions and registries measuring ICHOM Standard Sets. A few recent additions to the network include Fortis Healthcare, Ramsay Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic. Fortis Healthcare, operator of 54 health care facilities in India, Dubai, Mauritius, and Sri Lanka, has started measuring the Coronary Artery Disease Standard Set; Ramsay

December 2015: Standardization update

In the last six months, our standardization team began development of Standard Sets for Dementia, Craniofacial Microsomia, Heart Failure, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Older Persons, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Overactive Bladder. This brings us closer to our aim to cover more than half of the global burden of disease (GBD) by 2017.

“A measure of success”

Click here for a new article in which ICHOM’s Jason Arora and Thomas Kelley discuss implementation of ICHOM Standard Sets in NHS hospitals and around the world.  
In a new interview, Jennifer Clawson, an Associate Director at the Boston Consulting Group, discusses value-based health care, ICHOM, and the power of outcomes measurement. Click here to watch the video.
A new article in the Harvard Business Review, “Measuring and Communicating Health Care Value with Charts,” suggests the radar chart as “an effective means to visually depict outcome and cost data simultaneously.” Click here to read it.
The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce that Bowel Cancer Australia, the leading bowel cancer charity in the country, has become a Silver-level sponsoring partner in support of the ICHOM Working Group on Colorectal Cancer. Founded in 2000, Bowel Cancer Australia’s mission is to help save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of people
  In 2013, Alan Brace, Deputy Chief Executive of the Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Wales, participated in Professor Michael Porter’s value-based health care course at Harvard Business School. In his coursework, Brace was struck by how neatly the value-based approach could link financial and clinical aims in a common vision. Returning to Wales, he
The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce our Strategic Alliance with Santeon, a leading Dutch hospital group. Santeon is comprised of six facilities, each of which has previously been an individual sponsor of ICHOM. This is our fifth Strategic Alliance and our second in the Netherlands. Santeon was formed in 2010 to improve patient care
The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce our new Strategic Alliance with Ramsay Health Care.  Founded over 50 years ago in Sydney, New South Wales, Ramsay has become one of the leading hospital groups in the world. In its 212 facilities in Australia, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom, Ramsay providers care for nearly
    The ICHOM team is pleased to announce a new Strategic Alliance with the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.  The Health Board provides healthcare for a population of over 639,000, approximately 21% of the total Welsh population, in Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen and South Powys in Wales. The Health Board is named after the
  The ICHOM team is pleased to announce a new Strategic Alliance with the Agency for Clinical Innovation in New South Wales, Australia. This pioneering organization was established in January 2010 to work with clinicians, consumers and managers to design and promote better healthcare throughout New South Wales. The ACI fosters collaboration and improvement through
A new article, co-written by ICHOM’s Thomas Kelley, describes the key importance of outcomes measurement for driving value in health care. Click here to read the article.
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