“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has”. Margareth Mead (Cultural Antropologist)
The European Association of Value-Based Health Care (EAVBHC) is a non-profit organisation of European citizens. It was founded by 21 value-based health care experts who came together to help accelerate the transformation to VBHC across Europe. It was publicly launched in 2023 at the European Parliament in Brussels.
10 European nationalities are represented in the Council of Founders: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, UK.
The EAVBHC is the only value-based health care initiative organized by citizens for citizens. Its members represent themselves and do not represent the organisations they work for. We aim to work with other citizens in our geographical areas, including health professionals and policy decision-makers, to make VBHC a reality across Europe as quickly as possible.
A key aspect of our action is to make ordinary European citizens aware of the challenges that European health care systems face and to appreciate that VBHC is the solution.
The EAVBHC is registered in the Transparency Register.
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More than high-value care, a high standard of health should be a human right.
We must move away from supply-driven health care systems organized around what physicians do and move towards a patient-centred system organized around what patients need.
Doing so will require restructuring how health care is organized, measured, and reimbursed.
VBHC provides a new definition of success. Success is improving value for the patient by improving the outcomes that matter most to patients, by improving cost, or both.
We aim to accelerate the adoption of a new paradigm focused on the outcomes that matter most to patients. The goal? A world where patients ask their doctors about meaningful outcomes, and doctors can respond with data-driven answers. This new approach to health care delivery transforms health care in several important ways:
Outcome data can help clinicians evaluate their performance compared to their peers worldwide. It allows physicians to learn from each other to improve their care.
If clinicians make treatment decisions based on outcomes, patients are more likely to receive high-quality care, and payers are less likely to pay for treating complications due to low-quality care.
By publicizing health outcomes data, clinicians can improve their care, and patients can choose the clinicians and treatments that best suit them.
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