Healthcare transformation

Why?

Worldwide, health systems need to respond in a sustainable way to rising health care costs caused by new technologies and the changing and increasing demand for healthcare services of ageing populations and larger numbers of people with one or more chronic conditions due to altered lifestyles.

At the same time our understanding of health and care has advanced as well. The focus in health systems shifts from treating disease (curative medicine) towards health and quality of life through strategies of health promotion and prevention. And new technologies (a.o. big data, E-Health solutions) and new organizational models - typically regionally organized integrated care networks along the continuum of promotion, prevention, cure (primary care, hospital care), care and rehabilitation - enable a more personal and integrated response to the needs of the citizens.

However, implementing these new models that aim at the Triple Aim of better health outcomes and patient experiences of the attended population relative to the costs incurred to achieve them, is easier said than done. It actually is also a transformation process in which stakeholders, like health care providers and payers, need to shift to a new modus operandi and need to collaborate. This is only possible if there is mutual understanding and trust. It goes without saying that models always need adaption for the local context.

How?

Valorange aims at contributing to more sustainable health systems by connecting Dutch and Brazilian expertise in healthcare transformation projects. Transforming healthcare is complex. No one can do that alone. Therefor, depending on the themes and the needs of the project, Valorange forms and leads a consortium consisting of universities and companies with relevant and often specific knowledge, capacities or technologies, that addresses together, in interaction and with involvement relevant stakeholders, the envisioned transformation question.

What?

Typical themes that Valorange aims to address are organizing the right care at the right place (for example substitution of hospital care by primary care), healthy ageing, regional health networks, reduction of waste in healthcare/value based health care and international collaboration.

Two elements are fundamental in our transformation projects:

First, by making value cases Valorange approaches healthcare transformation always in an integrated way from a qualitative, quantitative and financial perspective. The value case may be considered for a single organization or in a costs/benefits analysis from a broader societal perspective.

Second, to deliver sustainable results, Valorange always chooses a transformation approach/trajectory that invites and involves stakeholders to explore the challenges at hand together and develop solutions to address them, in the meanwhile building mutual understanding, trust, friendship and willingness to collaborate among them.