Value Based HealthCare (VBHC) – is an ESTRO/ECF - HERO Project aiming to develop a framework to define value of RO to reflect the specificities of the treatment, allowing for optimization of patient access to high-value developments in RT.
Supported by a grant from Elekta and Varian, the VBHC Project aims to providing a framework to define value in RO to reflect the specificities of the treatment, allowing for optimization of patient access to high-value developments in RT.
The VBHC project will provide a framework to define value in RO by:
- Defining and categorize innovations in radiation oncology
- Defining endpoints needed for policy making in RO
- Linking endpoints and interventions with the evidence needed
- Providing a value framework, publications and communication collaterals (policy papers, key messages) for the RT community to adopt and the oncology community to acknowledge it, creating potential of impacting on HTA of RT innovations.
The VBHC Project work is embedded in the HERO (Health Economics of Radiation Oncology) project of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), launched in 2012 with the ambition to generate a model and knowledge base for health economics and health services research in radiation oncology [Lievens & Grau].
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The project will run for 3 years and will conclude by providing a framework for VBHC in radiation oncology with policy implications.
Links to publications:
Value-based radiotherapy: A new chapter of the ESTRO-HERO project
Innovation, value and reimbursement in radiation and complex surgical oncology: Time to rethink