Materials

On this page you may find materials, reports, and articles on value-based healthcare.

Insight Report                          

Transforming Healthcare: Navigating Digital Health with a Value-Driven Approach

This insight report provides a blueprint for the Digital Healthcare Transformation Initiative, detailing healthcare challenges that digital solutions can tackle, key enablers for adoption, success stories and strategies to expedite digital healthcare transformation.

Digital technologies and artificial intelligence have begun to influence healthcare, yet a transformative impact on global healthcare systems remains elusive. Challenges such as resource limitations, chronic disease burdens, and unequal care access and outcomes persist.

For digital health solutions to scale and address these issues, collaboration among healthcare stakeholders is essential. Global initiatives have emerged to enhance digital health benefits and remove obstacles, achieving notable progress. To further accelerate this impact through collaborative efforts, the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Health and Healthcare and the Boston Consulting Group have initiated the Digital Healthcare Transformation Initiative to facilitate public-private engagement on digital health and data.

How data-driven digital healthcare tools cut costs and boost outcomes

  • Each year, $1.8 trillion is spent on global health that make minimal or no contributions to positive health results.
  • Value-based healthcare heavily relies on data and analytics to measure patient outcomes and cost drivers and the necessary digital, data and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation in healthcare is accelerating.
  • The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Health and Healthcare is launching the Digital Healthcare Transformation Initiative which aims to elevate data-driven healthcare systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness in caring for people living with illness.
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Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

Meni Styliadou, Founder and Co-lead of the Health Outcomes Observatory and VP Health Data Partnerships, Data Science Institute, Takeda

Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York

How rewarding care quality can advance Universal Health Coverage in low and middle-income countries

  • Deaths from the poor quality of healthcare services represent about 15% of overall deaths in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
  • Most LMICs still contend with high out-of-pocket healthcare payments and low insurance coverage within volume-based (fee-for-service) care systems.
  • Unlike the volume-based approach, value-based healthcare (VBHC) rewards healthcare providers for the value of services they provide to patients, not the quantity.

How Africa's fintech boom can boost inclusive healthcare

  • Innovative, Africa-made fintech solutions are driving greater financial inclusion for those previously unbankable and excluded, like the poor, the young and women.
  • Africa is falling behind on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) targets: around 43% of the population lacks access to basic healthcare and about 11 million people are driven into poverty annually as a result of paying for healthcare.
  • But the technology powering the fintech boom can transform health systems and reach those most excluded.

Could the IKEA approach help assemble truly patient-centric healthcare?

  • Healthcare relies on clinical data sourced in part from patients.
  • Technology reporting patient outcomes in a standardized way would bolster global healthcare and policy-making.
  • IKEA's simple, participatory approach could provide a model for healthcare.

How value-based healthcare focuses on maximizing patient outcomes and harnessing resources


  • Our global healthcare crisis is characterized by unequal access to healthcare.
  • The widely accepted definition of 'value in healthcare' is the health outcomes that matter to patients relative to the resources or costs required to deliver those outcomes.
  • The World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare has built a community of organizations that show how value-based healthcare can become a reality.
Insight Report                          

The Moment of Truth for Healthcare Spending: How Payment Models can Transform Healthcare Systems

This insight report is a thematic exploration into payment models as an enabler of value-based healthcare. The purpose is to use and showcase real case studies across healthcare stakeholders to provide guiding principles and concrete recommendations for implementing and deploying value-based healthcare payment models.

It is the intention of this insight report to instil a sense of urgency across all stakeholders to change the way healthcare is delivered globally, to invest every healthcare dollar spent in what works best for the patient through the acceleration of the adoption of value-based payment models for healthcare transformation.

Value-based healthcare payments are the future. Here's how to move from taxi to take-off

  • Value-based healthcare puts patients' desired outcomes at the heart of health decisions and systems.
  • Payments and how they are managed are a central part of any healthcare system, and value-based ideas must also apply to this aspect of healthcare.
  • The World Economic Forum has convened experts from the value-based healthcare ecosystem to share best practices and what works for them in delivering value-based healthcare payments.

Eliminating ineffective spending on global health

  • Each year $3.2 trillion is spent on global health projects that make minimal or no contributions to good health outcomes.
  • The World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare is accelerating value-based healthcare through its innovation hubs.
  • Eight organizations are implementing cost-effective and people-centred healthcare models.

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