Experts believe value-based care won’t ever reach scale unless fundamental barriers are addressed — including voluntary models, misaligned payer incentives, excessive metrics and weak employer engagement.
"The leaders of the quality movement’s version of quality improvement developed out of industrial engineering, so they're always comparing the care of patients to...the production of cars or the flying of airplanes," Dr. Abraham Nussbaum said. People are far more varied than that.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.