The IFIC Podcast

The ValueCare Podcast - E2 - The pilot process with Prof. Vanja Vasiljev

ValueCare is an EU-funded project aiming to deliver personalised integrated care using ICT, built around the value-based healthcare model. 
In this series, members of the ValueCare team give us an insight into different aspects of the project from shared decision making with patients to tackling ageism to running a large scale pilot. 
In this episode, Prof. Vanja Vasiljev from MEDRI in Croatia tells us tells us how important it was to work directly with stakeholders in order to create a system that met their needs.

The ValueCare Podcast - E1 - An introduction to value-based healthcare with Oscar Zanutto

ValueCare is an EU-funded project aiming to deliver personalised integrated care using ICT, built around the value-based healthcare model. 
In this series, members of the ValueCare team give us an insight into different aspects of the project from shared decision making with patients to tackling ageism to running a large scale pilot. 
In this episode, Oscar Zanutto from Faber ISRAA joins us to introduce the concept of value-based healthcare. 

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Apostolos Tsiachristas on ’Demystifying health financing for integrated care’.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Ass. Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas, Associate Professor of Health Economics at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences & Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.
Apostolos is an Associate Professor in Health Economics at University of Oxford, where he is leading a programme of research that focuses mainly on the economic evaluation of new models of care, particularly for people with mental health and multi-morbidity, and financial incentives in healthcare.
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Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Jeroen Struijs on ’Demystifying health financing for integrated care’.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Prof Dr Jeroen Struijs, Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Centre.
Prof Struijs is also a Senior Researcher at the Department of Quality of Care and Health Economics in the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands.

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Brendan Walsh on ’Demystifying health financing for integrated care’.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Brendan Walsh, Senior Research Officer at Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research focuses on the interface of social care and healthcare. 
Brendan was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences and the City Health Economics Centre at City, University of London working on a project estimating the cost of cancer care in England.
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Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Jacque Mallender ’Demystifying health financing for integrated care’.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Jacque Mallender, an international health and public policy economist. They demystify the language of payment models and the different models we see emerging.
Jacque Mallender started her career as a government economist and then moved into research and consultancy working in Europe and North America, and more recently in North Africa and the Middle East. She now provides specialist economics analysis, advice, training and publications through Economics By Design Ltd, a company she co-founded in 2019. She is also consultant with the World Bank Group, and an Executive Committee member of the Economic Research Council.  
She has a long-standing interest in the economics of integrated care and, in particular, health financing and is currently providing training on health system payment models as part of the IFIC Integrated Care Academy Masters Programme. 

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Ellen Nolte on ’Demystifying health financing for integrated care’.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Prof Ellen Nolte. Ellen Nolte is Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her expertise is in health systems research, international health care comparisons and performance assessment.
Over the past decade she has developed an internationally recognised research portfolio around innovative service models that seek to better meet the needs of people with complex and long-term health problems, with a particular focus on care coordination and integration within and across sectors. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. With Lena Woldman, Ellen wrote the chapter on financing and reimbursement for integrated care in the Handbook of Integrated Care.