As leader of the global Health Economics and Market Access team at Boston Scientific, Maria Stewart is focused every day on unlocking value in the healthcare system with the ultimate goal of improving patients' lives. In a recent piece published in Modern Healthcare, Maria proposes a new lens on the much-buzzed-about concept of "value-based healthcare." From leveraging AI to leveraging health economics, she explores ways that health systems can make smarter decisions.
She begins:
The definition of value-based healthcare has been debated for more than a decade, yet most of the discussion has focused on payment reform—a critical but notoriously slow and cumbersome process. If we define value more broadly as improving patient outcomes while making it more affordable to deliver those outcomes, there is a wider range of possibilities for product developers, providers and payers to collaborate, and signs of progress are easier to find.
Read her full article, "The Many Faces of Value-Based Healthcare."