The HealthPros Network has been running from 2018 and will come to an end in March 2022. We had a fantastic group of researchers working together to develop tools and implement methods to streamline healthcare performance measurement, develop and apply performance-based governance mechanisms and optimize the use of healthcare performance intelligence by different end-users. They explored different topics, like;

• actionability of performance indicators 
• composite measures
• integrated care 
• corporate governance tools
• patient and citizen engagement 
• Nudging
• use of routine databases for performance improvement
• long-term care.

As the COVID-19 pandemic paralleled the HealthPros programme, many Fellows and the network at-large, sought opportunities to conduct a number of COVID-19-related studies at pace with the pandemic’s changing context. All fellows prepared a short video explaining their work in HealthPros. A short description of their project and the short video's themselves can be accessed by clicking the button below!

The lessons learned during the project, have been condensed in recommendations on various aspects of performance-based healthcare governance and end-user involvement. 

This Healthcare Performance Intelligence Series represents the culmination of key research findings by the network into a collection of reports providing methodological, practical, and policy guidance. Reports in the series are tailored to different audiences, ranging from policy-makers, hospital managers, clinicians, and the general public. The development of each report in the series has relied on close collaboration across the HealthPros network. The range of topics and resources making up this series includes the following (click on the title to access):

• Practical experience with implementing disparity and composite measures in large-scale routine quality improvement work to support transferability to other HC systems (No. 1.2 2022)
• A practical guide towards actionable healthcare performance indicators: Selecting healthcare performance indicators that are fit for purpose and use for various stakeholders (No. 1.3 2022)
• Policy guidance on advancing the performance assessment of integrated healthcare systems (No. 1.4 2022)
• Policy guidance on the use of PREMs to improve health system performance (No. 2.2 2022)
• Policy summary report on the value of results-based tools in health care management-Lessons learned from COVID-19 dashboards (No. 2.3 2022)
• Business model for effectively involving patients in the financial decision-making of health insurance funds- A guide to health care insurers on fostering the engagement of citizens based on recent experiences in the Netherlands. (No. 2.4 2022)
• Policy summary report on best practices for linking financial incentives to health care performance at individual health care provider, institutional and regional level- A business case for value-based health care systems based on performance intelligence (No. 2.5 2022)
• Policy recommendations on the role of nudging for health care performance assessment agencies (No.3.2 2022)