From Cost to Care Excellence: Applying the AHVAP Standards of Practice to Facilitate Evidence-Based Decision Making

In this leadership-track session, AHVAP shares practical principles leaders can apply to strengthen value decisions at any level of value analysis maturity. Representatives from AHVAP focus on the foundations that create durable clinical buy-in: clear governance, stakeholder alignment and unbiased, trusted data that supports confident decision-making, anchored in AHVAP’s Standards of Practice and value analysis positioning statements. The conversation connects these practices to executive priorities beyond cost savings, including patient safety, quality outcomes and clinician engagement — and how organizations can embed value analysis principles into the structures they already have.

Speaker: J. Hudson Garrett Jr., Ph.D., Executive Director and Executive Vice President, Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals