AJMC: COVID-19, Implications for Value-Based Care Transition

Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, president of health platforms, Verily Life Sciences, discusses examples of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) use amid the pandemic to optimize patient care, as well as what impact HEOR may have in the transition to a value-based health care system. Vivian Lee shares, “When COVID-19 struck, it was clear that we really had an important role to play as a digital health technology with our members. For one thing, just simply access to information, we know people were really scared and as you will remember, people with diabetes were in that high-risk group. So, people wanted to ask questions, so they could reach out to their coaches, and they could reach out to those clinicians and ask them about COVID-19 too—the impact of COVID-19 on their diabetes and just COVID-19 questions more generally.” Read more at AJMC.