Value-based Healthcare: Increasing Value by Reducing Implant-related Health Care Costs

Value-based health care delivery.

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Biomedical research: increasing value, reducing waste.

www.thelancet.com Vol 383 January 11, 2014 101 Of 1575 reports about cancer prognostic markers pub lished in 2005, 1509 (96%) detailed at least one signifi cant prognostic variable. However, few identifi ed biomarkers have been confi rmed by subsequent research and few have entered routine clinical practice. This pattern—initially promising fi ndings not leading to improvements in health care—h...

Increasing Energy Efficiency by Reducing Losses and Promoting Value Propositions

Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain is split up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to those places in the world where production is relatively the cheapest and most efficient. This implies that transaction costs, associated with the coordination of production and trade in parts and components, become increas...

Making equity a value in value-based health care.

Equity in health and health care in America continues to be a goal unmet. Certain demographic groups in the United States-including racial and ethnic minorities and individuals with lower socioeconomic status-have poorer health outcomes across a wide array of diseases, and have higher all-cause mortality. Yet despite growing understanding of how social-, structural-, and individual-level factor...