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Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care
Driving performance through high-value care.
The HSS Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care accelerates the development of HSS capabilities to deliver the highest quality and best value musculoskeletal care to the patients we serve. The center develops and deploys high value musculoskeletal care solutions by pulling together unmatched clinical and operational expertise, data assets and analytical skills found only at HSS.
Key Focus Areas
- Value Measurement and Communication
- Produce original research and external benchmarking to support HSS value proposition
- Build visual value dashboards for clinical operational areas
- Develop KPIs for evaluating value
- Value-based Care Delivery
- Measure and report patient-reported and other health outcomes (PROMs) as a routine part of care delivery
- Build programs to standardize optimal high value care
- Develop capabilities to manage musculoskeletal disease effectively and efficiently across broad care episodes and for populations
- Value Tool Development
- Design and build patient-centric technologies leveraging HSS knowledge and processes
- Work with future external partners to build and grow innovations supporting value-based care
- Design and develop new care delivery technologies for use in the broader healthcare market
- Value Research
- Develop predictive models for health improvement, risks, utilization of services and costs of care
- Inform the development and adoption of quality measures for musculoskeletal disease that are meaningful, accurate and fair
- Evaluate the validity of various current national and state quality/value programs
Contact Us
If you would like to learn more about the Center and how we can work with you to benefit your organization, complete the How To Collaborate With Us form or email valuecenter@hss.edu, and a member of the team will respond to your inquiry.
Our Team
Amy Chin, MS
Assistant Vice President
Amy Chin is Assistant Vice President in the Value Management Office at HSS and Director of the HSS Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care. Her work focuses on issues affecting healthcare providers that span policy, finance, economics, and quality. In this role, she evaluates pay for performance programs and public measurement systems affecting hospitals. Having started her career in health services research, Amy brings expertise in developing measures, risk adjustment, and statistical models using administrative data. Amy holds a master’s degree in biostatistics from University of Illinois at Chicago – School of Public Health and is pursuing a doctorate in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Shinhye Kim, MSc
Senior Value Analyst
Shinhye is the Senior Value Analyst at the Hospital for Special Surgery. She analyzes quality measures and optimizes ways to monitor HSS performance on value metrics. Her experience is in clinical and observational research methods as well as working with large administrative databases. Shinhye holds a master’s degree in biological sciences from University of Manitoba.
Keisha Burgess
Executive Secretary
Keisha Burgess is executive secretary supporting the Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care and Quality & Accreditation department at HSS. She has a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. She received her Master’s degree focused in Economics from the City University of New York – The City College of New York.
Rachel Weston, MPH
Program Director
Rachel is the Program Director of the Value Management Office at Hospital for Special Surgery. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with expertise in healthcare policy and hospital administration. She honed her leadership skills through an Administrative Fellowship, where she underwent accelerated executive training and gained valuable experience in payer relations, value-based strategy, project management, and program implementation. Her background is further enriched by five impactful years in government relations and lobbying across multiple healthcare associations in Washington, DC.
Amina Troupe, MPH
Value Analyst Fellow
Amina is the Value Analyst Fellow at Hospital for Special Surgery. Her experience and skillset lies in data analytics and public health which she uses to support research initiatives and healthcare operations. Amina holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University.
Seong Hee (JJ) Jang
Value Research Assistant
JJ is the Value Research Assistant at Hospital for Special Surgery. His background is in patient-care strategy and clinical research, which he uses to lead value and quality projects in musculoskeletal health start-to-finish. JJ graduated cum laude from Harvard University in History of Science following the Medicine & Society honors track.
Value Principles
Purpose: To advance implementation of highest value care which will help people get back what they need and love to do while advancing the sustainability of our health care system.
Mission: To sustain and propel HSS as the leader of high value musculoskeletal care by advancing programs and policies that improve the physical, psychosocial and financial wellbeing of populations and individuals.
Vision: To shape global policy which advances innovative high value patient centric MSK care through collaboration, exemplary care delivery models and thought leadership.
Everything we do ties back to one or more of our principles for high-value care:
Patient First
- Improve health consistent with patient preferences
- Avoid physical and financial harm
- Measure and report outcomes
Evidence-based Care
- Base clinical decisions on best available evidence
- Disclose investigational therapies and carefully measure safety/outcome/costs
- Utilize diagnostic and therapeutic services with evidence of efficacy
- Do not perform diagnostic and therapeutic services with evidence of little or no effect
Manage Long-Term
- Avoid unnecessary care (costly and potentially dangerous)
- Standardize efficient care pathways
- Utilize least expensive therapies for desired outcomes
- Manage entire episode of care; address condition
- Systemically measure costs
Project Spotlights
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Objective: Incorporate collection and use of PROMs into standard care delivery at HSS
Why this is important: Drive patient-centered care, assess pain and functional improvements, and measure value of care delivered
Key activities: Collect for all patients hospitalized at HSS, treated in HSS outpatient setting, and treated by HSS-affiliated physicians
Episode of Care Redesign
Objective: Coordinate patient care across the entire episode, from pretreatment to 90 days post-treatment
Why this is important: Provide seamless, individualized care to patients to achieve optimal outcomes and enhance patient experience
Key activities: Centralize triage capabilities, implement risk assessment protocols, and enhance coordination across the episode to get patients to the right place at the right time, with the right level of care
Moore Project – Improving Diagnosis of Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infection
Objective: Develop performance measures that drive improvement in diagnosing peri-prosthetic joint infection (PJI)
Why this is important: Establish a minimum set of tests and processes for diagnosing PJI to inform practice and in turn improve patient outcomes
Key Activities: Develop a set of electronic clinical quality measures and registry measures to be implemented in mandatory pay-for-reporting and pay-for-performance programs
World Economic Forum Global Innovation Hub for Value in Healthcare
Objective: Share HSS knowledge, expertise, and experience in delivering high-value care
Why this is important: Provoke conversation about value-based healthcare among the World Economic Forum community, provide thought leadership on policy to transform healthcare, learn from and connect with an international cohort of organizations engaged in value-based healthcare.
Key Activities: Present on HSS’s successes in developing a data infrastructure and care delivery models that drive value, participate in the Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare cohort and the World Economic Forum larger community, engage in opportunities to elevate the conversation on value-based healthcare (e.g., podcasts, meetings, blog).
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