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The Seven Steps of BeneFIT Design

Planning and Implementing a Value-based Health Strategy

Organizations can create a successful value-based health benefit strategy in seven steps:

1. Define Value
2. Collect Data
3. Organize Your Data
4. Analyze Your Data
5. Target Your Initiatives
6. Pitch Your Initiatives to the C-Suite
7. Implement Your Initiatives¹

The seven steps cover the following areas:

• The concept of FIT Design, an organizational litmus test for delivering value that is:
  • Fact-based
  • Integrated
  • Targeted to need
• Application of the FIT Design concept. Applying Fit Design requires seven action steps. These steps guide managers through the stages of benefit design:
  • Planning
  • Designing
  • Implementing

Jack Mahoney, MD and David Hom of Pitney Bowes wrote about these seven steps in their book, BeneFIT Design.¹

What Can Your Company Do?

Challenge your organization to apply the FIT Design model within the health benefit planning process. Implement the seven steps to strategically invest in value-based health initiatives.

Create a successful value-based health benefit strategy in seven steps. Order your free copy of BeneFIT Design from the GlaxoSmithKline Response Center at
1-888-825-5249.

Reference:

1. Mahoney J, Hom D. BeneFIT Design: Seven Steps to Value-Based Health Benefit Decisions. Philadelphia, PA: GlaxoSmithKline, 2007.

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