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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Achieving health equity is increasingly understood to be an essential priority for providers and for organizations throughout the larger health care system. The authors describe a four-tier model t ...

Let’s start with clarifying some concepts. Leaders who work in the public sector use the term public health, leaders who work in health systems use the term population health, and often I find that ...

The Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health explores distinctions among the concepts of public health, population health, and population medicine. She describes her agency’s ...

WellSpan Health, an integrated system of eight hospitals and more than 170 outpatient locations, adopted a systemwide approach to implement team-based advance care planning (ACP) processes and during ...

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 ...

In a discussion with NEJM Catalyst, Gianrico Farrugia, MD, President and CEO of Mayo Clinic, describes a strategy focused on the need to cure (the traditional core mission), connect (to develop tools ...