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The Decision Institute organizes the Intensive Value-Based Health Care Green Belt Track. The Intensive VBHC Green Belt Track is intended for international healthcare professionals who aspire to maximize patient value, deliver more effective & efficient care, and would like to receive tools with which to implement VBHC in their own health care organization.
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The Programme
The Intensive VBHC Green Belt Track is designed specifically to cater the busy healthcare professionals who are keen to optimize patient and healthcare value, byoffering an intensive 2-day learning preparation and VBHC Green Belt Certificate examination, carried out twice a year in the Netherlands. In specific, the HCPs will get:
The Decision Institute also offers an online VBHC Green Belt Track Blended Learning program several times the year, which provides:
The VBHC Green Belt Certificate proves your VBHC knowledge and passion for creating excellent patient value. Moreover, you become part of the VBHC Alumni community which allows you to participate in exclusive sessions and opportunities to share experiences & best-practices with other VBHC professionals worldwide.
What VBHC Alumni members say about the VBHC Green Belt Track:
“The Value-Based Health Care Green Belt Track offers you the theoretical framework for VBHC implementation. The implementation itself is learning on the job. The combination of theory and practice makes me really understand how VBHC works.” – Max Curfs, Clinical Embryologist.
“Together we can get the collaboration between care pathways to the next level.” – General Practitioner.
The Decision Institute
The Decision Institute is specialized in Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) education. VBHC is a concept that aims to improve value for the patient. In co-creation with the founder of the VBHC concept – Harvard Prof. Michael E. Porter – The Decision Institute has developed a number of methodologies to implement VBHC from different perspectives: the medical condition, the patient value, the care cycle, outcome measures, organizational design, health costing, and value proposition. In the past ten years, more than 28.000 healthcare professionals have followed VBHC education at The Decision Institute. On average the VBHC Green Belt Track is rated with an 8.7. The healthcare professionals are from various organisations like: Humanitas, Amgen, Philips, The Aga Kan University Hospital and Pfizer.
The program Director of The Decision Institute, Prof. Dr. Fred van Eenennaam is specialized in (Value-Based) healthcare, economics, and corporate governance and teaches Health Administration and Change to different universities like George Washington University (Washington, DC).
Grasp of the clients
The University of Warwick provides transformative learning and research opportunities that spark debate, fuel ambition and incite innovation. Ranked in the top 10 in the United Kingdom and 54th in the World, the University of Warwick is an internationally-recognised centre of excellence delivering the highest standards of diabetes education, research, information and materials to improve the quality of diabetes care. Over 14,000 healthcare professionals have received diabetes qualifications from the Medical School at the University of Warwick over the past 18 years.
Designed specifically to cater for the busy healthcare professionals in primary care, this programme offers state-of-the-art distance learning opportunities that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, across multiple platforms and devices.
Combining practical and case-based learning, delivered by a network of local and global diabetes experts, this programme is a full academic higher diploma, producing highly-skilled clinicians in diabetes management and enabling graduates to excel in their healthcare career as diabetes key opinion leaders and recognized diabetes experts within their communities.
The 6-module course is delivered through an advanced online learning platform with weekly online live video tutorials, online assignment submission, online library and full academic grading and mentorship, over a period of 12 months by a team of expert tutors, the majority of whom are GPs from Ireland and the UK. The programme has an overall 91% Satisfaction rating.
Participants receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes in Primary Care accredited locally, and by the University of Warwick – a globally renowned centre of excellence in diabetes education.
As a student on this programme you can:
The University of Warwick partners with iheed to deliver this programme. iheed is a world-class, next generation, medical education organisation, specialising in primary care. Facilitated by an in-house team of medical experts, and university partnerships; we work with government ministries and national healthcare organisations, to meet their healthcare needs – quickly, cost effectively and to the highest standards.
“At the age of 54, I was very nervous doing this programme, but I am delighted I did so. The most valuable learnings include Chronic Disease Management Methods and Disease Register best practice. These skills can transfer across any chronic disease and I can now engage very competently not only with diabetes patients but also heart failure and COPD presentations. I would do this programme again in a heart beat.”
Dr Paddy Davern, Class of 2017
“I thoroughly enjoyed sharing my clinical experiences with colleagues from other countries. My diabetes competency improved hugely. Particularly the skills for changing patient’s behaviour via motivational interview, the updated knowledge about new medication in diabetes and caring for patients with diabetes in special circumstances.”
Dr Dalal Al Hajeri, Class of 2017