How to Improve Value Assessment

In an op-ed published in Healthcare Business News, IVI's Executive Director, Jennifer Bright, describes four essential steps necessary to better measure value in healthcare: Better value measurement must incorporate the patient perspective into all assessment tools. Real world data must be considered when determining a treatment's worth beyond direct clinical benefit. Value assessments must be [...]

2018-07-27T12:03:59-04:00July 27th, 2018|Viewpoints|

PRESS RELEASE: IVI Responds to HHS’ Blueprint Saying Lowering Healthcare Costs Requires Improving Value Assessment

IVI Says Moving Beyond Cost Effectiveness by Evaluating Treatments Based on Unique Patient Characteristics and Preferences is Imperative Los Angeles, CA – July 16, 2018 -- If we are going to truly harness data to lower healthcare costs while accelerating and rewarding innovation that benefits patients, then defining and assessing value in healthcare must [...]

2021-03-23T19:05:56-04:00July 16th, 2018|News, Press|

IVI Demonstrates Commitment to Patient Involvement with Release of “Partnering with Patients” Principles

To demonstrate IVI’s commitment to patient involvement and ensure that the patient perspective is represented in our work, IVI recently developed several documents enumerating the principles and practices that guide this vital partnership. These documents offer detail about the actions IVI takes to involve patients and patient organizations early and often in research, model development and other projects, and establish a basis [...]

2018-05-03T16:33:42-04:00April 17th, 2018|News|

Patient-Centered Formularies: Steps in the Right Direction, but Challenges Remain

In a post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Drugs and Medical Innovation, Jason Shafrin (IVI Director of Research) and Mark Linthicum (IVI Director of Scientific Communications) explore the role that formularies play in determining value for different stakeholders, and how unique, multi-stakeholder efforts can make formularies more patient-centered. Read the full article [...]

2018-04-16T12:22:51-04:00April 11th, 2018|Viewpoints|
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