CHSPR Seminar | Improving value from hospital spending

Jason Sutherland

Thursday, May 23, 2019
12-1 pm
Room 219 (within 201), 2206 East Mall
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia

Jason will discuss the latest advances in improving value from hospital spending, with case studies and examples from a number of countries regarding strategies for improving effectiveness and patients’ outcomes. The presentation will incorporate areas such as the definition of value-based care and its application in various areas and patient groups.

Jason is a CHSPR faculty member and is also the Program Head, Health Services and Outcomes, at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. His research encompasses health system performance, effectiveness research and clinical outcomes. He has been studying funding policy, methods for improving cross-continuum care, and health systems’ variations in efficiency, effectiveness and quality of care, and leading research evaluating health system funding policy, patients’ outcomes from surgery, measuring risk of adverse events, effects of wait times, gains in health, cost-effectiveness and cost avoidance.

A light lunch is included in this seminar. Please contact Joyce (joyce.huang@ubc.ca) to RSVP for lunch by Wednesday May 1. You may also join remotely via GoToMeeting: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/297740069. Please let Joyce know if you would like to join this way.