Value-Based Healthcare Canada
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Building a Path to Patient-Centered Health Systems
Canada’s healthcare system is at a crossroads. Pressure is mounting to improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency, and ensure sustainability for future generations. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) offers a proven, internationally recognized framework that can help Canada meet these challenges by aligning care delivery and costs with what matters most to patients: their health outcomes and quality of life.
VBHC Canada was established to provide evidence for applying this model nationally. This independent, pan-Canadian initiative leads research, coordinates implementation efforts, and builds capacity to support system-wide adoption. Working across public, private, not-for-profit, clinical, and academic sectors, VBHC Canada is the go-to source for aligning healthcare innovation with value, ensuring every advancement delivers meaningful, measurable impact.
We don’t think about value in health systems, but we think about cost. Value-based healthcare is about being obsessed with amazing outcomes. It forces us to be proactive and target scarce resources more equitably and efficiently to where patients need them most.
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Our focus
VBHC Canada focuses on how to unlock, scale, and share the value of innovation across Canada’s healthcare system. Our research will examine how innovations are introduced and evaluated, how patient and system needs are identified and addressed, what infrastructure is needed to support value-based innovation, and how the benefits can be equitably distributed to drive better outcomes.
Funding members
Research impact
Our research centre model creates collective impact, amplifying reach and producing actionable insights. VBHC Canada’s work is already shaping policy and advancing change in Canadian healthcare by bringing together decision-makers from across the country to join in a national dialogue.
Our team brings deep experience producing research that supports policy development, legislative processes, and strategic decisions across government, healthcare, and the private sector.
Beyond VBHC Canada, Signal49 Research’s health research program continues to influence national healthcare policy and innovation through other research initiatives focused on specific issues and outcomes, such as access to innovative therapies, national pharmacare initiatives, or long-term care challenges.
Private-public partnerships are a cornerstone for value-based healthcare to truly materialize. Industry has an important role to play by collaborating in partnerships which advance patient-centric and efficient healthcare delivery.
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Centre research
Community Pharmacy Integral to Delivering Primary Care: Impact and Opportunities for Value-Based System Transformation
Transformation Toward Value-Based Healthcare in Canada: Focal Points for System-Wide Implementation
Shaping a Bold Vision for Canada’s Health Ecosystem: Value-Based Healthcare Canada (VBHC Canada)
Understanding the Use of Patient Reported Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer: Experience of a Canadian Hospital
Strategy for Scaling Value-Based Procurement in Canada: The Path to Value
Different Is Necessary: Approaches to Advance Value-Based Procurement in Canada
Setting the Stage: The Status of Value-Based Procurement in Canada
Why become a funding member?
Help shape the future of healthcare in Canada through strategic, evidence-based research.
Join a powerful network of leaders working to transform Canada’s health system. Through a shared investment model, your funding goes further, enabling deeper insights, broader collaboration, and stronger policy influence. Together, we can create research that not only informs dialogue, but also drives meaningful change.
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