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Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of management skills that encourage systems thinking and align clinical and operational resources to improve outcomes and efficiencies. Today's leaders must implement strategies to:

• Improve cost management and efficiency
• Increase clinical integration and expand coordinated care
• Improve quality and patient safety
• Integrate information systems
• Foster innovation and change management
• Increase patient engagement

This report builds on the AHA's second-curve series that began with the 2011 breakthrough report 'Hospital and Care Systems of the Future.'

View other reports in this series:

• Report--Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care
• Roadmap--Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care
• The Second Curve for Population Health