High-Value Health Care: Perspectives from the Sex- and Gender-based Care Lens

Mitchell, Julie L.

The quadruple aim consists of four goals: healthier people, smarter spend, better care, and joy in work. Achieving the quadruple aim means providing evidence-based care that is cost-effective, avoiding low-value care, reducing inequity within the population, and putting patients first. Systems engineering, including process improvement and care teams in advanced medical homes, helps to achieve these goals, as do increasing the proportion of the population who is insured and addressing social determinants. Pay-for-value contracts and public reporting are additional forces that encourage value over volume yet are external to provider and hospital organizations. Providers can play an important role in improving high-value care through both clinical work and advocacy for policies that support women’s health and sex- and gender-based medicine.