A growing number of healthcare organisations are embarking on a Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC) journey, and research exploring success factors to implementation provides encouraging insights. As Australia considers the potential of VBHC as a new direction in the delivery of its healthcare and funding, understanding the implementation landscape is a critical step.
Government pilot projects trialling care coordination demonstrated mostly null results, suggesting long segments of integrated care packages and patient outcomes had a complex relationship. This finding subsequently led researchers to use shorter segmented care pathways and treatment models in the hope of identifying better outcomes.
