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    Value Measurement for Health Care
    Dates: 05–07 AUG 2019
    Location: HBS Campus
    Fee: $6,700
    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.

    Summary

    Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve patient outcomes and lower delivery costs. Value Measurement for Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks and skills to make rigorous value measurement a core part of your organization's strategic agenda.

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    Summary

    Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve patient outcomes and lower delivery costs. Value Measurement for Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks and skills to make rigorous value measurement a core part of your organization's strategic agenda.

    Key Benefits
    Focused on improving the quality and delivery of health care, Value Measurement for Health Care provides more efficient and more cost-effective approaches to measuring patient outcomes, and explores new strategies for creating and implementing a successful value measurement system. In the process, you will learn how to use the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method, which will enable you to more accurately measure costs for individual patients as well as the total cost of care for their medical conditions.

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    Improve outcomes and reduce costsImprove outcomes and reduce costs
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    • Implement value measurement processes across your organization
    • Provide better care through new approaches for organizing practice units and serving complicated patient populations
    • Execute the right processes at the right locations, integrate care delivery across facilities, and coordinate care with health care partners
    Increase operational efficienciesIncrease operational efficiencies
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    • Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization
    • Optimize costs over the full cycle of care
    • Manage reimbursement and payment challenges
    Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
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    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

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    Key Benefits icon-dropdown-down

    Focused on improving the quality and delivery of health care, Value Measurement for Health Care provides more efficient and more cost-effective approaches to measuring patient outcomes, and explores new strategies for creating and implementing a successful value measurement system. In the process, you will learn how to use the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method, which will enable you to more accurately measure costs for individual patients as well as the total cost of care for their medical conditions.
    Details

    Improve outcomes and reduce costs

    • Implement value measurement processes across your organization
    • Provide better care through new approaches for organizing practice units and serving complicated patient populations
    • Execute the right processes at the right locations, integrate care delivery across facilities, and coordinate care with health care partners

    Increase operational efficiencies

    • Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization
    • Optimize costs over the full cycle of care
    • Manage reimbursement and payment challenges

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

    Who Should Attend

    • Senior clinical leaders responsible for overseeing care delivery
    • Financial executives who direct cost management for health care delivery organizations
    • HR executives from large organizations who manage health care for employees, collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care as part of their business model
    • Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations
    • Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care supply companies
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    Who Should Attend

    • Senior clinical leaders responsible for overseeing care delivery
    • Financial executives who direct cost management for health care delivery organizations
    • HR executives from large organizations who manage health care for employees, collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care as part of their business model
    • Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations
    • Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care supply companies

    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

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    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

    Admissions Criteria and Process

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process icon-dropdown-down

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.
    Program content, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.

    What You Will Learn

    Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, dynamic discussions, and interactions with guest speakers, you will explore innovative health care practices and value initiatives in action. You will learn how to improve the care delivery process through the rigorous measurement and management of outcomes—and how to implement an effective value measurement system across your organization.

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    What You Will Learn

    Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, dynamic discussions, and interactions with guest speakers, you will explore innovative health care practices and value initiatives in action. You will learn how to improve the care delivery process through the rigorous measurement and management of outcomes—and how to implement an effective value measurement system across your organization.

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    Measurement: outcomes and costsMeasurement: outcomes and costs
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    • Using the outcome measures hierarchy to identify outcomes that matter to patients
    • Mapping the processes of care and associated costs using the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) methodology
    • Calculating patient treatment costs and margins
    • Developing a data collection infrastructure to record outcomes and resource use
    • Organizing and staffing a project for measurement of costs and outcomes
    Measurement systems and care deliveryMeasurement systems and care delivery
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    • Overcoming barriers to change when implementing new systems and processes
    • Utilizing outcomes and cost data to innovate and improve care delivery
    • Eliminating unnecessary processes or process variations that do not add value
    • Empowering physicians, nurses, and administrators to improve the value of care
    • Collaborating and coordinating care with key partners
    • Lowering wait times while improving patient outcomes and choice of care
    Payments and reportingPayments and reporting
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    • Creating and accepting new bundled payment contracts with public and private payors
    • Reporting outcomes to referring providers, payors, and patients
    • Managing coverage issues or policy changes from public health plans or private insurers

    Key Areas icon-dropdown-down

    Key Areas icon-dropdown-down

    Measurement: outcomes and costs

    • Using the outcome measures hierarchy to identify outcomes that matter to patients
    • Mapping the processes of care and associated costs using the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) methodology
    • Calculating patient treatment costs and margins
    • Developing a data collection infrastructure to record outcomes and resource use
    • Organizing and staffing a project for measurement of costs and outcomes

    Measurement systems and care delivery

    • Overcoming barriers to change when implementing new systems and processes
    • Utilizing outcomes and cost data to innovate and improve care delivery
    • Eliminating unnecessary processes or process variations that do not add value
    • Empowering physicians, nurses, and administrators to improve the value of care
    • Collaborating and coordinating care with key partners
    • Lowering wait times while improving patient outcomes and choice of care

    Payments and reporting

    • Creating and accepting new bundled payment contracts with public and private payors
    • Reporting outcomes to referring providers, payors, and patients
    • Managing coverage issues or policy changes from public health plans or private insurers

    Faculty

    Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.

    Faculty Cochair

    Robert S. Kaplan

    Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus. Member of the Accounting and Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards, Systems, and Strategy," "Risk Management for Corporate Leaders: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage," and "Value Measurement for Health Care."

    Prof Kaplan on action research to lower health care costs.

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    Michael E. Porter

    Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Member of the Strategy Unit; and director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Faculty chair of "Strategy for Health Care Delivery"; faculty cochair of "Creating Shared Value" and of "Value Measurement for Health Care."

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    Faculty

    Thomas W. Feeley

    Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School. Head of the Institute for Cancer Care Innovation at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

    Prepare for the new world of value-based health care.

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    Faculty

    Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.

    Faculty Cochair

    Robert S. Kaplan

    Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus. Member of the Accounting and Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards, Systems, and Strategy," "Risk Management for Corporate Leaders: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage," and "Value Measurement for Health Care."

    Prof Kaplan on action research to lower health care costs.

    Read Full BioLearn More

    Michael E. Porter

    Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Member of the Strategy Unit; and director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Faculty chair of "Strategy for Health Care Delivery"; faculty cochair of "Creating Shared Value" and of "Value Measurement for Health Care."

    Read Full Bio

    Faculty

    Thomas W. Feeley

    Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School. Head of the Institute for Cancer Care Innovation at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

    Prepare for the new world of value-based health care.

    Read Full BioLearn More

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