Healthcare Transformation Advanced Program

While the idea of high-value health care is increasingly popular, many health care leaders are uncertain about what it takes to deliver high value services at scale. This program, a unique collaboration between NOVA NSPH and the Value Institute for Health and Care at the University of Texas at Austin focuses on the how-to of high-value.

Hosted by Prof. Elizabeth Teisberg, co-author of Redefining Health Care, Prof. Scott Wallace, an award-winning teacher and scholar, and Profs Rui Santana and Alexandre Lourenço, highly renowned health care management professors.

 

OBJECTIVES

 

• Describe how value is created at the level of patients and families in everyday practice;
• Examine how capability, comfort, and calm are used to measure what matters to patients, families, and health care professionals;
• Explore how the “transformation braid” of strategy, culture, and measurement enables transformation;
• Reflect on how to use the implementation frameworks to improve the health outcomes that matter most to individuals and families.

 

IDEAL STUDENT

 

The Advanced Program is aimed at professionals with management responsibilities in health care and committed to transforming how care is provided.

 

 

CURRICULAR PROGRAM

 

In Person Session | What is Value in Health Care

Learning Objectives:

• Define value creation in health care services;
• Discuss how outcome measurement enables health transformation;
• Describe how measurement enables and supports change in strategy and culture;
• Recognize the gaps between current care delivery and high-value care in the context of different health conditions;
• Analyze how the activities within a solution offered by an integrated team increase value for the individuals and families the team serves, including changes in both outcomes and costs;
• Recognize how new solutions can improve equity by expanding who is served and by creating more effective health care services for every individual.

 

Online Session 1 | Measuring Outcomes that Matter and Using Outcomes to Drive Learning and Improvement

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the outcomes that matter most to patients using the Capability, Comfort, and Calm framework;
• Compare and contrast the current measurement landscape with measuring the results of care;
• Select outcome measures that matter for patient health;
• Describe how measuring outcomes can enable teams to learn and continuously improve care;
• Identify steps to begin measuring outcomes that matter most to patients.

 

Online Session 2 | Strategy and Scaling Transformation

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the role of measurement in transforming the organization’s strategy and culture;
• Align outcome measurement with financial success;
• Discuss how to enable high value growth;
• Identify key elements of scalable service innovations

 

 

GUEST LECTURERS

 

 

Elizabeth Teisberg

Professor Elizabeth Teisberg, Ph.D. wrote Redefining Health Care, the foundational book on value-based health care, with Prof. Michael E. Porter. She currently holds the Distinguished University Chair in Value-Based Health Care at the University of Texas, Austin. She has received awards for her roles in founding the field, for her pioneering work on implementation of high value health care, for teaching excellence, and for her impact on health care delivery. She advises, keynotes, and teaches internationally to help organizations design and implement care that improves meaningful outcomes and advances health equity.

See bio here.

 

 

Scott Wallace

Associate Professor Scott Wallace, J.D., MBA, is the co-founder and managing director of the Value Institute for Health and Care at Dell Medical School and holds academic appointments at the Dell Medical School and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of the University of Texas’ President’s Associates Graduate Excellence Teaching Award recognizing educational innovations in the school’s unique master of science in health care transformation program and his work in the classroom. He leverages his business, health care IT and health policy background to work with students, employers, health care leaders and other stakeholders to transform health care delivery in the U.S. and around the world.

See bio here.