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The Value & Systems Science Lab
What good are ideas and data that don't lead to change?
The Value & Systems Science Lab (VSSL) was created to transform data and ideas into actionable insight. The Lab was founded on the idea that the more this type of transformation occurs, the greater the chance that health care interventions can improve outcomes for patients and populations.
To achieve that mission, we seek to advance understanding about how health care payment, delivery, and decisions affect outcomes.
Our Work
Mission & Principles
To achieve impact in our mission, we support several programs through work in several areas.
Payment
By affecting organizational strategy, care delivery, and the behaviors of groups and individuals, health care financing -- how we pay organizations, clinicians, and other groups to provide health care services -- can key role in determining health care outcomes.
We use deep expertise in financial incentives, economics, and contract design to analyze payment models, and advanced statistical methods to study how large payment arrangements impact provider strategy and patient and population outcomes.
Delivery
Payment incentives impact outcomes through downstream care delivery models and processes: systematic or reproducible processes through which individuals and groups organize and deliver health care services to patients and populations.
We use advanced statistical methods and implementation insights to both study care delivery models and identify salient implementation considerations for implementing them.
Decisions & Behavior
Human behavior is the final common pathway to nearly all health interventions - that is, payment incentives and care delivery models impact the health of patients and populations partially through their behavio. In turn, understanding the behavior of clinicians and patients can provide unique insight into how to design payment models and organize care delivery models that can improve the health outcomes.
We use expertise in behavioral and decision science, along with randomized controlled trials, to study how interventions designed using behavioral principles impact outcomes.
Our portfolio consists of a series of initiatives and work products that reflect work in our focus areas. Learn More
VSSL Portfolio
Interested in working together?
VSSL is designed to collaborate with health care stakeholders, to drive change that impacts patients and populations. To do so, it works with different stakeholders, drawing on content expertise in areas such as decision sciences, health policy, care delivery redesign, and behavioral economics, as well as health system leadership in population health, value-based purchasing and care delivery.
If these focus areas align with your interests or work, we'd love to hear from you!