Value Driven Outcomes (VDO): a pragmatic, modular, and extensible software framework for understanding and improving health care costs and outcomes

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 223 - 235
• Main Authors: Kawamoto, Kensaku, Martin, Cary J, Williams, Kip, Tu, Ming-Chieh, Park, Charlton G, Hunter, Cheri, Staes, Catherine J, Bray, Bruce E, Deshmukh, Vikrant G, Holbrook, Reid A, Morris, Scott J, Fedderson, Matthew B, Sletta, Amy, Turnbull, James, Mulvihill, Sean J, Crabtree, Gordon L, Entwistle, David E, McKenna, Quinn L, Strong, Michael B, Pendleton, Robert C, Lee, Vivian S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Cost-Benefit Analysis; Health Care Costs; Humans; Research and Applications; Software; Treatment Outcome; Utah; Utah; care costs; care quality; care value; activity-based cost accounting; care outcomes

To develop expeditiously a pragmatic, modular, and extensible software framework for understanding and improving healthcare value (costs relative to outcomes). In 2012, a multidisciplinary team was assembled by the leadership of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and charged with rapidly...