TY - JOUR
T1 - The Value of Diagnostic Information in Personalised Healthcare: A Comprehensive Concept to Facilitate Bringing This Technology into Healthcare Systems
AU - Wurcel, Victoria
AU - Cicchetti, Americo
AU - Garrison, Louis
AU - Kip, Michelle M. A.
AU - Koffijberg, Hendrik
AU - Kolbe, Anne
AU - Leeflang, Mariska M. G.
AU - Merlin, Tracy
AU - Mestre-Ferrandiz, Jorge
AU - Oortwijn, Wija
AU - Oosterwijk, Cor
AU - Tunis, Sean
AU - Zamora, Bernarda
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Health systems around the world seek to address patients' unmet health needs for a range of acute and chronic diseases. Simultaneously, governments strive to keep healthcare spending sustainable, while providing equal access to high-quality care. This has fuelled debate around what constitutes a valuable healthcare intervention in a health system and the corollary consideration of what governments are willing to pay for a certain health intervention. Until recently, the value of information in general, and the value of diagnostic information (VODI) specifically, was not part of the discussion. However, investment in diagnostic information can be a key development as information may guide more effective and efficient healthcare and help maintain an affordable health system. This paper therefore explores ways to best define, evaluate, and reward the value created from diagnostics in healthcare and how to include these value considerations in decision-making processes for diagnostics. The authors ultimately call for a holistic VODI framework that accounts for the full range of potential benefits of diagnostic testing, beyond the traditional clinical and health economic domains, and that is essential to recognise, measure, and fully leverage the benefits of diagnostics for patients, health systems, and society.
AB - Health systems around the world seek to address patients' unmet health needs for a range of acute and chronic diseases. Simultaneously, governments strive to keep healthcare spending sustainable, while providing equal access to high-quality care. This has fuelled debate around what constitutes a valuable healthcare intervention in a health system and the corollary consideration of what governments are willing to pay for a certain health intervention. Until recently, the value of information in general, and the value of diagnostic information (VODI) specifically, was not part of the discussion. However, investment in diagnostic information can be a key development as information may guide more effective and efficient healthcare and help maintain an affordable health system. This paper therefore explores ways to best define, evaluate, and reward the value created from diagnostics in healthcare and how to include these value considerations in decision-making processes for diagnostics. The authors ultimately call for a holistic VODI framework that accounts for the full range of potential benefits of diagnostic testing, beyond the traditional clinical and health economic domains, and that is essential to recognise, measure, and fully leverage the benefits of diagnostics for patients, health systems, and society.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1159/000501832
DO - https://doi.org/10.1159/000501832
M3 - Article
C2 - 31330522
SN - 1662-4246
VL - 22
SP - 8
EP - 15
JO - Public Health Genomics
JF - Public Health Genomics
IS - 1-2
ER -