The Good Health Cafe
Value Based Healthcare
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In this episode our guest is Ms. Eva Villalba. Eva is the Executive Director of the Quebec Cancer Coalition and a value based healthcare expert. She came to the cafe to discuss value based healthcare, precision medicine and various levels of patient advocacy. Grab your warm drink and tune in for a great conversation!
Some key takeaways:
- Eva believes that value based healthcare is not just the future, it's the next step in the evolution of healthcare transformation
- Precision medicine is transforming the way we approach healthcare. By targeting specific mutations, we can provide more effective and personalized treatments for patients.
- Patient partnership is key. Level one is being a partner in your own care, level two is giving back to the community, and level three is becoming a patient advocate to impact public policy
- There are patient advocacy groups and government phone lines available to help you find the right healthcare professionals and resources
About Eva Villalba
Eva Villalba is the Executive Director of the Quebec Cancer Coalition, a non-profit patient advocacy group dedicated to improving the Quebec health-care system for people affected by cancer. Since 2008, she has been involved in health-care charities, advocacy groups and non-profits. She graduated from McGill University with a double major in Psychology and Applied Linguistics, then completed an MBA from HEC Montréal with the objective to apply best business practices to the non-profit sector. Eva is passionate about good governance, public policy, community impact, health-care reform and social innovation. She is a volunteer board member of the Artificial Intelligence Impact Alliance (AIIA) and sees great potential in applying AI and technological innovations to the health-care sector to prevent and improve health outcomes. Eva is the first Quebecker and Canadian to obtain a graduate degree in Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) with an MSc. in Health Care Transformation at the University of Texas at Austin with Professor Elizabeth Teisberg and other VBHC experts. Eva is a fierce patient advocate and believes strongly in the potential of the Quebec health-care system to be a world-class leader in Value-Based Care. Eva has an extensive international network of Value-Based Health Transformation Leaders, has a VBHC Green Belt Certification from VBHC Center Europe and is their official Canadian Ambassador. She is also the co-chair of the Resilient Healthcare Coalition (RHC), a diverse group of health system leaders across the public, private, and non-profit sectors committed to helping Canadian health care systems enhance patient care and improve health outcomes by becoming faster, nimbler, and better able to adapt to future shocks.
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