Value-based healthcare (VBHC) underpins sustainable delivery of healthcare, yet healthcare systems around the world continue to face challenges in embedding it systematically into practice. Whereas, the Learning Health System (LHS) has been embraced as a means to capture, analyse, and translate new knowledge into the practice of healthcare delivery.
While LHSs are a mechanism to deliver and embed VBHC, structural components of VBHC presents barriers to this transition. Achieving a seamless transition requires the development of new competencies, investment in infrastructure, and the adoption of innovative practices.
To full integrate both these systems, the Deeble Institute’s Perspectives Brief proposes leveraging Health Research and Education Precincts (HREPs) as a platform to build on the principles of LHS and systematically embed them to advance the VBHC agenda.
The Brief outlines four key recommendations to realise the full potential of HREPs in embedding VBHC and LHS at scale: develop a nationally consistent definition, develop a national strategic framework, establish national coordination and governance and identify and allocate sustained financial investment.