Session (CTI)

Issue: VBHC was designed as a framework for patient-centred care, condition-specific outcomes, and the use of PROs to support benchmarking and inform value-based payment (VBP). Despite this conceptual clarity, VBHC has struggled to achieve consistent operationalisation. Its growing relevance is reflected in the ISPOR Top 10 HEOR Trends, where VBHC now ranks third. In parallel, HEOR provides mature methods for measuring outcomes and costs and informing decisions, yet these tools are not systematically incorporated into VBHC initiatives. The core issue to be debated is whether VBHC and HEOR are sufficiently aligned to support robust, comparable, and decision-relevant assessments of healthcare performance, and what methodological and practical gaps must be addressed for this alignment to be implemented at scale. Overview: This 60 minute panel will examine the conceptual, empirical, and implementation dimensions of aligning VBHC and HEOR. The session will begin with a 15 minute presentation by Jens Grueger, who will outline the conceptual foundations of VBHC–HEOR alignment and the role of HEOR frameworks in defining and measuring value. This will be followed by a 15 minute presentation from Borja García Lorenzo, who will discuss empirical applications demonstrating how established HEOR methods can be transferred into VBHC contexts to operationalise the value equation and support more consistent assessment of healthcare performance. Lotte Steuten will then provide a 15 minute of critical perspective on the practical conditions that shape implementation in health systems, reflecting on the factors that influence whether conceptual and empirical advances can translate into routine practice. The final 15 minutes will be dedicated to audience discussion and debate, focusing on the methodological, operational, and system level implications of VBHC–HEOR alignment. The session will be of particular interest to stakeholders involved in decision making and resource allocation, including payers, HTA bodies, clinicians engaged in outcomes measurement, health system managers, and researchers working on VBHC and HEOR.