1.  Health care costs continue to escalate rapidly. It is
Question 6 not feasible for providers to continue to practice
medicine without be conscious of its cost.
Best practices can be
 Hospitals and providers must look for ways to
expensive – is it ethical
for doctors or hospitals provide more high-value, cost-conscious care that
not to adopt them because does not focus solely reducing cost but rather on
they are unaffordable or providing better value to patients
to deny best practices to  The Affordable Care Act will help to expand health
patients who are
insurance coverage in the US. Providers must do
uninsured or
underinsured?
their part to focus their care on creating value and
part of this is being cost-conscious
 Our research group has found that providers are
searching for the opportunity to provide such care
and are in need of better tools to do so. That’s why
we created the VALUE Framework as an
innovative tool that providers can use at the
bedside