Achieving value-based healthcare, increasing quality, reducing cost, and spreading access, has proven to be extremely challenging, in part due to research that is siloed and largely focused on singular risk factors, ineffective care coordination resulting from service fragmentation, and costly unintended consequences of reform that have emerged due to the complexity of healthcare systems. Understanding the behaviour of the overall system is becoming a major concern among healthcare managers and decision-makers intent on increasing value for their systems.

• Part I - Modeling and simulation framework for value-based healthcare systems
• Chapter 1: Healthcare systems modeling and simulation
• Chapter 2: Multi-perspective architecture for holistic healthcare M&S
• Chapter 3: Formalization of the multi-perspective architecture
• Chapter 4: Methodological elements for simulation-based healthcare management
• Part II - Modeling and simulation of pathways-based care coordination
• Chapter 5: DEVS methodology for coordination modeling
• Chapter 6: Care coordination and pathways-based experimental frames
• Chapter 7: Pathways-based care coordination simulation example
• Chapter 8: Health information technology support for pathways-based care
• Part III - Application of the framework
• Chapter 9: Pathways-based coordination of care in rural France
• Chapter 10: Surveillance of avian influenza in Vietnam
• Chapter 11: Multi-perspective modeling in relation to complex adaptive systems
• Chapter 12: Extending the framework to value-based coordination architectures
• Epilogue: Where do we go from here - Global and National Healthcare Maturity