Stefan Larsson, MD, PhD, is a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and founder of the firm's health care payers and providers sector and its health systems sector. He cofounded the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a nonprofit working to create global standards for measuring health outcomes, and he serves as a fellow on the Health and Healthcare team of the World Economic Forum. From 2016 through 2018, he led a BCG team that worked with the World Economic Forum on its Value in Healthcare program. That initiative led to the 2019 launch of the Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare, a forum-sponsored public-private collaboration to accelerate the transition to value-based health care in health systems throughout the world. Jennifer Clawson is a partner and director in BCG's Madrid office and global head of the firm's Center for Value in Health Care. She has worked with both private- and public-sector organizations to create new value-based business models and evaluate strategic opportunities to improve health outcomes. Josh Kellar, PhD, is a partner and managing director in BCG's Chicago office, leader of the firm's Global Scientist Network of more than 500 MDs and PhDs, and coleader of its medical response to Covid-19. He works with clients throughout the US health care industry, specializing in advanced analytics, value-based care delivery, and the application of digital technologies. Robert Howard is a former senior editor at Harvard Business Review and MIT Technology Review. He has been collaborating for more than a decade with BCG on the topics of value-based and health-system transformation.

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From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.

Delivering better health outcomes to patients for the money spent is an approach known as value-based health care. Contrary to traditional approaches to health-systems reform that emphasize cost containment, value-based health care shifts the focus to continuous improvement in the health outcomes delivered to patients. The premise of this approach is that systematically measuring, tracking, and improving health outcomes over time can have a transformative effect on the health care industry-enabling health systems to deliver better patient outcomes more consistently; to identify and disseminate best-practice treatments more rapidly; and to control total health-care costs more effectively because unnecessary procedures are eliminated, expensive complications occur less frequently, and repeat treatments are avoided. The only way for health systems to sustainably contain costs is by putting the patient and the delivery of outcomes that matter to patients at the center of the industry's efforts and by aligning incentives around the continuous improvement of health outcomes in a cost-effective manner.

Featuring powerful case studies of leading value-based innovators in health systems all over the world-both public and private, as well as from both high- and low-income countries-this book is designed as a practical step-by-step guide for clinicians, payers, and policymakers alike to put these ideas into action. The Patient Priority will be an indispensable tool to launch a new era of patient-centered innovation, unlock value in health care, and accelerate the value-based transformation of the world's health systems, enabling improvements in productivity, performance, and population health.