The Patient Centered Value System is a three-part approach to co-designing improvements in healthcare delivery—collaborating with patients, families, and frontline providers to design the ideal state of care after listening to their wants and needs. Central to the Patient Centered Value System is seeing through the eyes of patients and families.

"The spiraling costs of healthcare and diminishing value for organizations, patients, and families requires a new, transformative approach to healthcare delivery. The Patient Centered Value System is the answer to lowering costs, improving clinical outcomes, and increasing the patient and family care experience. The PCVS has resulted in tangible improvements on all levels at the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital."

-Steve F. Schutzer, M.D., Medical Director, Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, President, Connecticut Joint Replacement Surgeons, LLC

"The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Care through Co-Design offers a highly readable and practical approach for dramatically improving patient outcomes and experiences. As health care consumers, we would definitely want our providers to be following the Patient Centered Value System principles, delivering high-quality, empathetic, and lower-cost patient care."

-Robert S. Kaplan, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School

"This book captures perfectly the challenge that faces quality improvers everywhere: that lasting change can only be achieved through a change in mindset which places patients and families at the centre of the improvement agenda. The Patient Centered Value System is one of the few approaches which does just this. This system works. What it also does is transform the working lives of the staff applying it, reconnecting them powerfully with their core mission to care. It has been a privilege to use this approach with teams from around the United Kingdom, and a joy to see the changes they make when they see care through patients’ eyes."

-Bev Fitzsimons, Head of Improvement, Point of Care Foundation, U.K.

"DiGioia and Shapiro have achieved the goal of every author: to make understandable that which is complex, and to make implementable complex principles. When the subject is patient (and family)-centered care, those goals are both formidable and critical to the nation’s health."

-John R. Ball, M.D., J.D, Executive Vice President, Emeritus, American College of Physicians

"This book will teach you how to see. Whether you are a hospital CEO, as I have been, or a care giver at the front lines of care, as I have been, this book will open your eyes to the journey of a patient and family throughout care. The care systems of the future will be designed with and for our patients and their families. This book is the best guide to give you the tools and methods to co-design care with them."

-Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

"...the Patient Centered Value System is based on the natural curiosity and good intentions of clinicians and is designed to capture what’s really going on in the hospitals. Transformative? We’ll see. But it’s the best I’ve seen in a long time."

-Paul F. Levy is former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (2002-2011).

"The spiraling costs of healthcare and diminishing value for organizations, patients, and families requires a new, transformative approach to healthcare delivery. The Patient Centered Value System is the answer to lowering costs, improving clinical outcomes, and increasing the patient and family care experience. The PCVS has resulted in tangible improvements on all levels at the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital."

-Steve F. Schutzer, M.D., Medical Director, Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, President, Connecticut Joint Replacement Surgeons, LLC

"The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Care through Co-Design offers a highly readable and practical approach for dramatically improving patient outcomes and experiences. As health care consumers, we would definitely want our providers to be following the Patient Centered Value System principles, delivering high-quality, empathetic, and lower-cost patient care."

-Robert S. Kaplan, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School

"This book captures perfectly the challenge that faces quality improvers everywhere: that lasting change can only be achieved through a change in mindset which places patients and families at the centre of the improvement agenda. The Patient Centered Value System is one of the few approaches which does just this. This system works. What it also does is transform the working lives of the staff applying it, reconnecting them powerfully with their core mission to care. It has been a privilege to use this approach with teams from around the United Kingdom, and a joy to see the changes they make when they see care through patients’ eyes."

-Bev Fitzsimons, Head of Improvement, Point of Care Foundation, U.K.

"DiGioia and Shapiro have achieved the goal of every author: to make understandable that which is complex, and to make implementable complex principles. When the subject is patient (and family)-centered care, those goals are both formidable and critical to the nation’s health."

-John R. Ball, M.D., J.D, Executive Vice President, Emeritus, American College of Physicians

"This book will teach you how to see. Whether you are a hospital CEO, as I have been, or a care giver at the front lines of care, as I have been, this book will open your eyes to the journey of a patient and family throughout care. The care systems of the future will be designed with and for our patients and their families. This book is the best guide to give you the tools and methods to co-design care with them."

-Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Anthony M. DiGioia, III, MD, creator of the Patient Centered Value System, is a practicing orthopeadic surgeon and medical director of both the Bone and Joint Center and Innovation Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Tony graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Civil Engineering, obtained a graduate degree in Civil and Biomedical Engineering, and then attended Harvard Medical School, completed his orthopaedic residency in Pittsburgh, and a Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Wanting to help bridge the gap between engineering and medicine, Tony was a world leader in the initial development of medical robotics and computer assisted surgery. His work has always focused on bringing together diverse teams from multiple disciplines in order to listen to and meet the needs of patients and families. This broad focus led Tony to develop the Patient Centered Value System, which combines process and performance improvement with supportive technologies to improve clinical outcomes and patient and family care experiences while reducing costs. Eve Shapiro, principal, Eve Shapiro Medical Writing, Inc., has written on topics related to patient safety, patient-centered care, systems improvement, transitions in care, physician-patient communication, medical errors, and other subjects for audiences ranging from researchers and clinicians to patients and families. She has written books, articles, and other works for organizations such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Joint Commission, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Consumers Advancing Patient Safety. Eve believes storytelling is the most powerful way to teach, generate insight, promote understanding, and communicate essential truths.