Beyond the hype of positive health: towards person-centred care Since 2014, a new concept has been on the rise: positive health. Some see this as the solution to all the problems we currently face in healthcare. It’s not strange. For decades, healthcare has focused only [...]

Is primary care losing out to the hospital? Healthcare is in a period of drastic change. Healthcare organisations must increasingly position themselves as value-driven enterprises. Governments and health insurers are experimenting with new costing models, in which health care providers are running ever greater financial [...]

Six lessons for a successful substitution of care The healthcare landscape is changing. The number of people relying on health care due to chronic and/or complex conditions is steadily increasing. People continue to live at home for longer and after being admitted to hospital they [...]

DISEASE MANAGEMENT IS NO MORE – LONG LIVE THE CARE NETWORK! In recent years, there have been concerns about disease management programs in the Netherlands. The bundled payment rate that general practitioners receive from the health care insurance on top of their regular rate is [...]

Tips for better cooperation in network care The emergence of care networks is a fact. Regional initiatives with and for the patient are developing rapidly. Understandable, because the demand for care is changing. Multimorbidity and complexity of care are increasing. At the same time, people [...]

What you should know about outcome funding The costs of care are growing faster than the economy, the quality of care is inadequate in a number of areas and practice variation indicates scope for increasing the efficiency of care. This is the current state of [...]

Value-based healthcare should not focus on illness, but on (positive) health in the broadest sense of the word.

Is Value Based Healthcare the panacea for real healthcare efficiency? Or is it a pseudo-innovation, or renovation approach?