Effective board governance in complex health systems requires structured approaches that cascade quality and safety ...

Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program was established by the ACA to combat excessive and costly readmissions. Learn about HRRP penalties, criticisms, and strategies to reduce readmissions ...

NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say that the ongoing health care workforce crisis forces some care delivery organizations to turn away patients.

The initiative across multiple hospitals of BJC HealthCare to improve goals-of-care discussion efforts included enhanced mortality risk prediction using machine learning, efficient clinical workflows ...

Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion that a Covid-19 pandemic-related spike in quitting has had ...

One year after the deployment of ambient artificial intelligence scribes, The Permanente Medical Group in northern California reports rapid growth in physician usage, highly positive experiences am ...

How a public-private collaboration, Covid 3D TRUST, has helped to address critical supply shortages by empowering designers, manufacturers, and users of 3D-printed PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink the role of emergency departments and emergency physicians, and to create new care options that remove traditional barriers to effective ...

As hospitals seek to increase revenues by attracting more privately insured patients (who are disproportionately white), a complex pricing dynamic tends to channel both private and public funding away ...

Over 5 years, an initiative by leaders at Atrius Health has contributed to a reduction of messages, and it reflects and builds on their team-based care model for adult primary care.

Covid-19 has exposed the weaknesses of 19th and 20th century health care models and accelerated the need for effective information sharing. Here, we offer practical strategies to help health care ...

Primary care providers are spending more time responding to electronic patient requests and completing other tasks in their digital in-basket that do not require their level of expertise. This ...