Launching Value-Driven Framework for Evaluating Healthcare Innovations
Healthcare innovation is evolving rapidly, driven by technology advancements and the need for advanced care solutions. A fit-for-purpose evaluation framework for healthcare innovation is more important now than ever before.
To measure healthcare innovation success and value, the Office of Healthcare, Innovation, and Learning (OHIL) created a fit-for-purpose evaluation framework that focuses on four dynamic measures of value—access, effectiveness, efficiency, and equity—and follows three fundamental principles—meaningfulness, appropriateness of scale, and time to value realization.
“We have an opportunity to redefine the blueprint for successful healthcare innovations. To be transformational, evaluation frameworks need to define true value as that which matters most to our Veteran patients.”
- Carolyn Clancy, MD Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education, and Affiliate Networks
With this new framework, VA can better:
- Prioritize what matters to Veterans and continue to support excellence in value-driven Veteran healthcare
- Design, develop and deploy a portfolio of mission-driven and sustainable healthcare innovations
- Realize the dynamism of innovation value, yielding more significant health outcomes over time from individual and population levels
Generating the Evidence-Based Framework
Using a mixed-method approach, VA conducted extensive research to build a robust and sustainable Framework. The foundation for this Framework included 80+ evidence-based research publications, 30+ interviews with leaders internal and external to VA, and over 33 years of peer reviewed publications.
“To innovate the path to high value care, we must first redefine value beyond just dollars and cents. To ensure that every dollar invested returns value to the Veterans we serve, we need to focus on measuring value across the domains of access, effectiveness, efficiency, and equity.”
- Ryan Vega, MD, MSHA, Chief Officer for the Office of Healthcare, Innovation, and Learning
High Value Innovation Starts With You!
Put this framework in-action to:
- Inform operational rigor needed to track the full range of value returned from the innovation portfolio
- Demonstrate the balance of value being pursued across an innovation portfolio
- Support investment decisions based off a holistic evaluation of the value they promise
If you are working on any innovation and it aligns with this framework, share your story here and we’d love to highlight you and your work within VA and beyond! Check out four innovation use cases of this framework and how they are impacting care at VA.
Want to support VHA IE’s innovation revolution? Visit our website (https://www.va.gov/innovationecosystem/) to learn about opportunities to become involved in innovation at VA.
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