News / HFMA gives value an international platform

The October event follows a successful inaugural symposium on value last year. This followed earlier work by the HFMA to share learning on international approaches to improve clinical costing and to learn more about the German health service approach to costing and tariff setting.

Institute head Catherine Mitchell (pictured)
said sharing understanding across country borders was crucial to supporting the development of value-based healthcare. ‘There is a growing recognition across the world that healthcare must be managed on the basis of delivering better value – measured in outcomes and cost,’ she said. ‘There are examples in many countries of organisations and systems that are attempting to put the theory into practice.’

She added that many of the challenges – establishing robust outcome and cost data, engaging clinicians and finance practitioners and making information available in an understandable and timely way – are common to all health systems. ‘It makes sense to know how other systems are squaring up to these challenges.’

This year’s event will provide a platform for speakers from Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada, as well as involving UK-based case studies. 

The symposium, on 4 October, is open to institute member organisations. The HFMA is also offering places to HFMA Provider Finance Faculty members, as well as international delegates.