IVI seeks to ensure that patients are full participants and equal partners in our research design, execution, and evaluation. As part of IVI’s mission to advance the science and improve the practice of value assessment, we believe:
- Value assessment must reflect diversity in patient preferences, experiences, and circumstance
- Patients must be equal partners in value assessment
- Value assessment methods must include patient experience
- Value assessment must seek to reduce healthcare disparities and advance health equity

Sustains Authentic Patient-Centricity
Sustains Authentic Patient-Centricity
Value assessment must consistently establish diverse patient partnerships in governance, priority setting, and the creation of models. Assessors should lead robust research in patient preference and data improvement to ensure value assessment is authentic and relevant to the diverse patient experience.
If we learn the right lessons from the COVID pandemic, the future of value assessment will be one that highly values people with – and without – serious, chronic conditions or disabilities as essential members of society. Value assessment will operate with the speed, flexibility, and wisdom necessary to maximize that value.
IVI Resources on Sustaining Patient-Centricity
For more information on how IVI includes patients in its work, please find the following resources:
- Patient Advisory Council. The Patient Advisory Council is an advisory board to the IVI Board of Directors, created to ensure that our organization remains patient-focused and transparent.
- Partnering with Patients: Principles and Commitments 2020 Update. This 2-page document summarizes IVI’s patient-centered principles and goals for patient involvement.
- Patient Engagement Principles Checklist. This brief document outlines IVI’s considerations when implementing its principles.
- Partnering with Patients (2018). This white paper outlines how IVI plans to incorporate its principles for partnering with patients into its working structure and organization.
- Patient Representativeness. This infographic highlights the importance of diverse populations in value assessment.
Interested in learning more? Please contact us at [email protected], or consider becoming a member of our organization. By joining IVI, you can ensure you are part of modernizing value assessment.