Optimizing Value Based Care: Advanced Strategies for Population Health Management

Optimizing Value Based Care focuses on developing your organization’s strategy, financial analysis, operations and performance management, leadership, patient safety and engagement for the purpose of generating and sustaining innovation and quality improvement.

If you are interested in commissioning this program specifically tailored for your organization, or any other custom program, please contact Rebecca Moore at 617.432.2207 or rmoore@hsph.harvard.edu.

Program Overview

Value-based care, also known as population health management, demands innovative strategies to integrate health care within communities and across delivery systems. The “Volume to Value” journey, from traditional fee-for-service to value-based care models, requires vision, leadership, education, training, and active patient engagement. This program incorporates the Quadruple Aim principles of reducing cost, enhancing patients’ experience of care, improving population health, and attaining joy in the work.

Your employees will deeply engage with faculty, health care leaders, and subject matter experts as we build critical leadership, management, and operational skills in your organization.  The program will be customized specifically to meet your organizations’ goals, and can incorporate a variety of learning strategies to ensure an active, participatory experience.

Program Objectives

This 2.5 day program will help your organization:

  • Expand its ability to become a successful ACO, including improving risk contract success, expanding employee and population health delivery models, improving community health, using data analytics and technology, introducing or expanding use of telemedicine, and improving shared decision making.
  • Use clinical data to inform population based care decisions, transforming the care continuum, and creating community based interventions that tackle disease prevention and management for better health outcomes.
  • Recognize how internal and external stakeholder input support targeted health care based on Quadruple Aim principles (reducing per capita cost, enhancing the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and attaining joy in the work).
  • Understand the social determinants of health that drive public policy and identify low-cost interventions to maximize equitable access to resources.
  • Identify the market forces driving the health sector, and where your organization fits.

Dynamic Topics

We design customized courses through a highly collaborative process.  Once learning objectives are identified, we can consider such content as:

  • Population health and financial risk
  • Social determinants of health
  • Technology and data analytics
  • Stakeholder strategies in a competitive environment

Organizations That Will Benefit

This program is designed for healthcare executives who lead or manage healthcare delivery services, including:

  • Senior health system and health care executives – including Chief Executive Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Chief Strategy Officers, Senior Vice Presidents, and Vice Presidents
  • Senior executives managing accountable care organizations
  • Clinical department chairs or chiefs whose responsibilities require them to allocate resources, develop policies, and provide leadership and direction to clinical and administrative personnel
  • Participants may include individuals from hospitals, hospital systems, insurance companies, large physician practices, pharmaceutical companies, large employer groups, ministries of health, and health care foundations
  • This program is open to participants from all countries where providing value based care is a priority and population health management is a concern

Sowmya Viswanathan, MD, MBA, MHCM

Sowmya Viswanathan is a health care executive with over 15 years’ experience in leadership roles. She is currently the Group Chief Medical Officer – Massachusetts and South Carolina Hospitals at Tenet Health Care and previously held positions as Chief ACO Officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Physician-in-Chief, Physician Quality Officer and Regional Chief with large regional health systems and academic medical center.

As the Chief ACO Officer she had oversight of the clinical operations services in a value based model at Dartmouth Hitchcock Health System. She also led network integration, quality performance measures, care continuum and value-based operational plans in the various leadership roles she has held.

Dr. Viswanathan received her MD from Boston University, her MBA from UMASS Amherst Isenberg School of Management and her MHCM from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.