Value-based Healthcare: A Surgeon Value Scorecard to Improve Value in Total Joint Replacement

The Customer Value Scorecard

At a time when financial reporting is less than reliable, Behram Hansotia proposes that companies use a customer value scorecard to report statistics associated with customer lifetime value. These scorecards will clearly show if a company is making progress in increasing customer loyalty and share of wallet. C EOs, academicians and the financial community are all dissatisfied with the standard ...

Value-based healthcare.

An elderly man with advanced esophageal cancer arrives in the operating room: his feeding tube has migrated out of his jejunum, spilling debris and bacteria into a previously sterile abdominal cavity. The OR clock fluoresces “2 AM.” With the patient’s immune system ringing alarm bells, his body has mobilized for biological warfare. His pulse races ... breathing hurries ... temperature climbs. A...

Value-based procurement of prostheses for total knee replacement

Cost-effectiveness evaluations concerning devices for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have little impact on real-life management of these devices. This study explored how pharmacoeconomic models can inform the procurement of TKA devices to improve their value for money. Our study included three phases: i) literature search for data of outcome, cost, and device type in TKA; ii) development of a Ma...

A Suitable Innovation Type to Improve the Added Value in Entrepreneurship

Due to the tough on-going competition between producers of commodities and services, the prices of products are continuously going down nowadays. To avoid bankruptcy in such circumstances, organizations have focused on the application of technological innovations that enable them to respond to the needs of their clients. It is to this end that they attempt to gain the market and increase their ...

The Value of Engaging the Public in CHATing About Healthcare Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries