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Outcomes data are key.

“Patients cannot properly align health care decisions with their own values and priorities unless they truly understand the likelihood of different outcomes,” says Dr. Deborah Korenstein of the American College of Physicians.   Read the article by Diana Phillips here: Medscape.com.
The ICHOM team is thrilled to announce that the  Scottish Government has partnered with our organization to support our Working Group on Dementia. The Standard Set for Dementia will  include the results of care that matter most to patients.  By measuring the Standard Set, providers around the world will improve the value of the care they deliver.
  The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to unlocking the power of value-based health care, today announced the first five IT solution-providers to achieve ICHOM Certified Supplier status. They are InputHealth, My Clinical Outcomes, PhDx Systems, POMT, VitalHealth Software, and VisionTree Software.   The Certified Suppliers are integrating the
“At its core, delivering value for patients is not a medical science challenge, according to Porter, but rather a managerial, organizational and leadership challenge.”  Learn more: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2014/10/07/hospital-of-tomorrow-experts-call-for-improving-value-in-health-care.

Influential ICHOM

MastersPublicHealth.net has named Stefan Larsson, ICHOM Cofounder and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the leading voices in public health.  Click here to read the list!

Tying payment to outcomes

Our Standard Sets of Outcomes can be used for different purposes: engaging with patients and discuss treatment options, improving care by systematically measuring – and acting – on outcomes, speeding up research; purchasing on value. It’s this last usage that we would like to highlight today. NHS in the United Kingdom, started in include a

September 2014 ICHOM Newsletter

You can find the ICHOM Newsletter – September 2014 and all the others here.
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ICHOM’s website relaunch

ICHOM has created a new website that better reflects who we are and what we do. It also enables us to provide you with new and more relevant information. Some elements from our previous website we are planning to reintroduce in the near future. Specifically for our members – our closest partners – we have
Watch ICHOM Cofounder Stefan Larsson explain VBHC in this November 2013 TED-talk that went viral! Different hospitals produce different results on different procedures. Only patients don’t know that data, making choosing a surgeon a high-stakes guessing game. Stefan Larsson looks at what happens when doctors measure and share their outcomes on hip replacement surgery, for
Dr. Jens Deerberg-Wittram, President of ICHOM, is convinced that healthcare systems can raise their value by constantly measuring clinical outcomes that matter to patients. In this video he explains the power of outcome measurement in healthcare. And in the meantime explains what outcomes actually are.
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