The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) uses the Value-Based Care (VBC) system to help address challenges in healthcare delivery in the country.
According to NHIA, when successfully implemented, VBC will provide citizens with quality and equitable access to basic health care.
The VBC system will also make provisions to invest in preventive interventions to improve the health of the population.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) NHIA, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, disclosed this while opening a 5-day workshop organized by PharmAccess Foundation in partnership with ‘Leapfrog to Value’ and the Ghana Christian Health Association.
He said, “VBC will tell you where to push your resources, so that you get the best results, and this is what we want to do”.
Dr. Okoe Boye added that the VBC will be a component of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) quality strategy to reform the way health care is delivered and paid for.
He added that the NHIA has in recent years deployed digital technology including the mobile NHIS update system to improve healthcare delivery in Ghana.
“The scheme has also introduced digital claims submission called ‘CLAIM-IT’ application, which helps providers submit claims hassle-free”, he added.
Dr. Okoe Boye said the digitization of the process has enabled NHIA to analyze and visualize data to help make decisions to improve the sustainability of the scheme.
“The digitization process allows us to integrate all the information about Ghanaians who are admitted to the hospital,” he said.
According to him, data analysis, and digitization of the NHIA system will be key to the implementation of Value-Based Care.
The Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana, (CHAG) Dr. Peter Yeboah said the current challenges in health insurance administration have magnified the need for VBC.
The Operations Manager at the PharmAccess Foundation in Ghana, Dr Gifty Sunkwa-Mills, said the Value-Based Care model, when implemented, will provide providers with transparency into outcomes and cost data.
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
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