Value-based health care: time to focus on outcomes, not outputs

With a focus on outcomes rather than outputs, spending on health care can be linked to outcomes that matter to patients, rather than to the volumes of services, processes, or products that may or may not achieve those outcomes.

Pharmacare is not a stand-alone solution. We need to reduce fragmentation, reduce inefficiencies, and address the full trajectory of care from prevention and promotion of health, to treatment, rehabilitation, and home care, write Monika Slovinec D'Angelo and Cameron MacLaine. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY MONIKA SLOVINEC D’ANGELO AND CAMERON MACLAINE

November 6, 2019

Universal pharmacare, or universal public coverage of medications, was highlighted by some parties during the election as a way to lower costs. Indeed, all Canadians should have access to necessary medications. Yet the extent to which universal public coverage of medicines can reduce the financial b...

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