ICHOM Standard Sets Update

From Suzanne Gaunt, Interim President and CEO, ICHOM: This month

we were fortunate to visit a number of providers, Erasmus MC and Santeon in the Netherlands and Saint Francis Hospital Connecticut. It’s been great to hear their experiences and how advanced they are in their VBHC journey.

In addition we attended a Multi-Society Task Force Meeting for the creation of a global Standard Set in Heart Valve Disease patients in Abu Dhabi. We are excited to start this project in the coming months. We continue to explore new standard sets and would encourage you to get in touch if you are interested in sponsoring or being part of a working group.

If you have any questions about this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact my colleague Sarah Gray - s.gray@ichom.org

We are pleased to announce that Luis Prieto has joined our team as Vice President Outcomes Research and Development.

Luis is responsible for the development and adoption of ICHOM’s Standard Sets worldwide. He began his career as a researcher at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Barcelona. Prior to joining ICHOM, Luis worked as head of epidemiological surveillance in a consumer goods company, responsible for running studies aimed at monitoring the safety of novel smoke-free tobacco products, and their impact on health. Since 2007 Luis has been a Distance Learning Tutor at the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Since 2017 he is an Associate Editor on Global Health for the journal BMC Public Health.

We have various organisations interested in creating new standard sets. These include: End of Life Care, CMV/Kidney Transplant, Obesity, Eating Disorders, Heart Valve, Multiple Myeloma, Sepsis, Sleep Apnea, Epilepsy, Head and Neck Oncology, Emergency Care, Pediatric Oncology, Multiple Sclerosis, Asthma and Sickle Cell.
If you are interested in supporting the development of these standard sets either with funds or as part of working groups, or if you have ideas for new sets, please email info@ICHOM.org

Conference Corner:

Our conference in Barcelona is your opportunity to learn from global pioneers in Value Based Healthcare who will be speaking LIVE in Barcelona.

They will deliver Case Study presentations sharing the specifics of their Value Based Healthcare implementation programs, including their methodology, resources and learnings.

Speakers include:

Dr Sally Lewis, Clinical Director, NHS Wales
Alan Brace, Finance Director, NHS Wales
Roald van Leeuwen, Program Manager, VBHC Santeon
Nelly van Uden PhD, Program Manager, SDM Santeon
Yolima Cossio, Director Outcomes and Information Systems, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital Campus
Professor Ahmad Hersi, Chief Medical Officer, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

These case studies will be followed by hands-on workshop sessions offering

deeper-dives into these implementation programs with a focus on enabling

attendees to operationalise, replicate and scale them in their own hospital

setting and for other conditions.

We are pleased to announce our new conference partners, Amplitude Clinical, BCB Medical, Promptly Health, Philips and Edwards Life Sciences. For conference or exhibition enquiries, please contact s.gray@ichom.org