Author: Jennifer Bright, MPA Everyone hopes for a COVID vaccine so our lives can return to normal. Yet, we know that even if clinical trials prove a vaccine's effectiveness, our society will still have to endure a long process of distribution. I'm personally willing to wait for a vaccine for healthcare workers, the elderly, and [...]
Central to IVI’s work is ensuring patient perspectives are included at the front of all value assessments. This short video explains why and how IVI incorporates lived experience in its modeling.
Authors: Alan Balch and Donna Cryer The vast majority of experts agree that we could, and should, be doing a lot more to include input from patients in value assessment, from conceptualization to data inputs to implementation. The crux of the problem is that in today’s world, we end up with models that assign a [...]
After the release of the public comments for IVI-NSCLC, Managed Healthcare Executive took a look at IVI's open-source model focusing on non-small lung cancer and how it will bring healthcare executives insight into value that otherwise wouldn't exist with traditional models. Read the full article here.
IVI is committed to exploring scientifically rigorous methods that improve the practice of value assessment in a collaborative, iterative environment. To that end, we are pleased to announce the call for research proposals that help us advance our mission and demonstrate the applicability of patient-defined factors of value. IVI welcomes proposals from individual researchers as [...]
IVI Executive Director, Jennifer Bright, writes in Morning Consult about the differences between patient-centered and consumer-driven healthcare. Read the full article here.
In an article published on AJMC.com, IVI'sJennifer Bright discusses how IVI makes incorporating patients' perspectives a priority in developing open-source, transparent value models. Read the full article here.
IVI has released the results to their non-small cell lung cancer patient qualitative research, which was used in the development of the structure of upcoming OSVP designed to evaluate lung cancer therapy sequences. According to the research, which was conducted in collaboration with LUNGevity, patients reported valuing treatments that would help increase overall or progression [...]
In an article published on AJMC.com, IVI'sJennifer Bright and Mark Linthicum argue value assessment stakeholders need to have transparent discussions about value assessment and understand what value means from other points of view. Read the full article here.
IVI's Jennifer Bright participated in a panel of discussion at the recent Value-Based Summit, organized by Xtelligent media. Bright's panel, "Healthcare Quality Measurement," examined how healthcare stakeholders are looking at insights derived from measurement initiatives to support value-based care. Read more here.
