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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

There has been enormous interest in the natural language processing model called ChatGPT. The program generates gracefully written responses on essentially any topic. It also generates astonishment ...

NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say improving equity in health care is personally important to them, but real progress is lacking.

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 ...