The backdrop of the healthcare industry is a mixed ground for everyone. It presents us with quantity, quality and money-based services. Though the quality of health care services provided to the patients yields the desired result, the quantity of services becomes heavier on the pockets.
Healthcare is a right for everyone
In today’s pace of declining health due to severe lifestyle changes, health services have become essential in the carry-ons. People look forward to health insurance policies and agendas of the government regarding better health.
In recent times we have encountered the severity in the availability of health care services through government policies and professionals as well. What follows such discrepancy in the healthcare industry is the less valued life during and after medical treatments.
Being denied the right to health services reduces the chances of a progressive life. Moreover, the expensive services also hinder good health.
Provisions of healthcare are everyone’s right and should be granted likewise.
What are Value-Based Healthcare Services?
In this era of our world where there are many healthcare professionals we find and observe the lack of value in this industry.
When a patient approaches any medical professional they assist and the patient is sent off their way. Even after the treatment, the value of the life of the patient remains unconsidered by the professionals.
The basics behind value-based healthcare services demand that quality be exercised over the number of services provided.
It is the outcome of the services that should be the focus of healthcare providers. The methods traditionally approached and approved for and by the professionals are fee-for-service (FFS) where the outcome of the service is not included.
Provisions of value
The benefits of such a system in the healthcare industry will yield a patient-centric approach and thus reduce the negative aspects of treatments dealt with by patients.
Some of the valuables achieved by the patients would include:
- Cost reduction: while receiving the treatment patients and doctors focus on the immediate effect on health and finances, but value-based services also bring in the future of the patient’s health. It recentres the expenditure by reducing the chances of recurrence in future, thus making it cost-efficient.
- Insurance: for people who avail health insurance services, be it for physiological, pathological or psychological treatments, insurance providers would face less burden as they would not have to repeatedly cover the same health issue or even different ones over some time.
- Professionals: the healthcare professionals involved in this procedure would face less burden of repeated encounters with a particular patient and a specific health issue. Moreover, this method also promotes technology-based approach from professionals as the main criterion behind hospitals and their staff is the incentives received by them.
Progressive goals and better health services
For a country like India, we need to come up with fast, accurate, and efficient healthcare services which take into account both the providers (professionals and policymakers) and the achievers (patients).
The value-based healthcare services will yield a cost-efficient and smooth functioning healthcare industry which not only provides during the treatment but adds value everywhere after this.
The magnanimity of the mortality rate due to the lack of value-based treatments can be brought down if the mindset of healthcare providers is shifted towards a collective goal of growth.
