News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

January 2020
Media Mention

Course Trains New Army Musculoskeletal Integrated Practice Unit Teams

                                 
                                          WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, FORT BRAGG, NC: After launching the Musculoskeletal Center
                                             of Excellence last September, center medical professionals attended the first Musculoskeletal
                                             Care for Military Providers Course. The new IPU brings together a diverse team.

November 2019
Media Mention

Value-Based Care in Low and Middle Income Nations

                                 
                                          The concept of value-based health care has diffused rapidly world wide. This new anlaysis
                                             demonstrates how the principles of value-based health care can be applied in low and
                                             middle income countries and how it can assist the the journey to universal health
                                             coverage.

August 2019
Media Mention

Navy Saves Money Improves Patient Outcomes Through Value Based Care Pilot

by Fierce Healthcare

                                 
                                          Could multidisciplinary care teams improve the cost of care for active-duty personnel
                                             and their dependents? It turned out they could—and simultaneously, they found they
                                             could actually improve care, getting active duty personnel back to work in a shorter
                                             amount of time...

18 July 2019
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American College of Surgeons and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals

                                 
                                          Washington, DC (July 18, 2019): Leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
                                             and Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness gathered
                                             on Capitol Hill today to announce a new partnership aimed at improving health care
                                             value.

28 June 2019
Media Mention

White House Addressing Laws that Impede Value-Based Health Care

by Rachel Roubein, Politico

                                 
                                          INSIDE THURSDAY's WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON REGULARATORY REFORM — The meeting focused
                                             on the Stark Law, the anti-kickback statute, and beneficiary inducements, coming as
                                             OMB is reviewing proposed rules to overhaul laws that block the transition to value-based
                                             care. — Who...

Aug 2018
Media Mention

Yes, There's Hope for Health Care Reform

                                 
                                          Republicans and Democrats are quietly forging a consensus on a consequential aspect
                                             of medical care: improving its value for all Americans by increasing its quality and
                                             lowering its cost. This consensus — the so-called value agenda — is focused on reducing
                                             the health...