Health Care 2030: The Coming Transformation | NEJM Catalyst
Mar 3, 2021 · The problems in our health care systems include subpar quality and patient safety, a misplaced focus on acute care rather than on prevention and population health, inadequate person centeredness, and unsustainable cost.
What Is Patient-Centered Care? - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2017 · Personalized medicine. The concept of patient-centered care extends to the treatments and therapies clinicians provide. Not only are care plans customized, but medications are often customized as well.
Elevating Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Experience ... - NEJM …
Apr 17, 2024 · In 2021, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) published a strategy refresh 1 reflecting on our first decade of testing alternative payment models. This strategy describes a vision to promote person-centered health care transformation and our intent to more broadly define the success of models on the basis of the ...
What Is Risk Management in Healthcare? | NEJM Catalyst
Apr 25, 2018 · Moreover, with the value-based care movement and today’s risk-bearing models such as bundled payments and CMS’s pay for performance programs, financial risk is increasingly shifting from payers to providers and requires a broader view of risk management. In May of 2017, Moody’s Investor Services released a report highlighting the link between risk management and a hospital’s operating ...
Emergency Department Crowding: The Canary in the Health Care …
Sep 28, 2021 · Emergency department crowding is a sentinel indicator of health system functioning. While often dismissed as mere inconvenience for patients, impact of ED crowding on avoidable patient morbidity and mortality is well documented but remains largely underappreciated.
Patient Satisfaction Surveys - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2018 · Patient Satisfaction is one performance measure of health care quality. The authors of this Hastings study describe three domains of patient satisfaction: the delivery of essential medical care; treatments sought by patients and their families (which may or may not be favorable to good health); and the provider activities and behaviors that comprise compassionate care and the safeguarding of ...
Reforming Health Care: The Single System Solution
Aug 19, 2020 · The flaws of the U.S. health care system have been exposed and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. This paper posits three underlying causes of our persistent poor performance: flawed assumptions; inadequate information; and fragmented delivery, payment, and insurance systems that make it easier to profit by shifting risk or costs to others than by improving value.
Health Inequity and Racism Affects Patients and Health Care …
Feb 17, 2021 · The pandemic, which has severely impacted older populations, those with chronic conditions, those who live in multigenerational households, and those who hold low-wage jobs considered essential during the pandemic, is laying bare some uncomfortable truths about disparities in care and “has forced a reckoning” in the industry, Cooper says.
What Is Patient Flow? - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2018 · The Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers a White Paper that shares strategies, promising change ideas, and resources to help hospital leaders and improvement teams take on the challenges of achieving hospital-wide patient flow.The report stresses the importance of taking a system-level approach to improving patient flow and building the will to do so throughout the entire organization ...
Distinguishing Health Equity and Health Care Equity: A Framework …
Mar 7, 2023 · Amid a series of public health crises and social injustice tragedies, health equity has become a fundamental priority for policy makers and the entire health care industry. From government to profe...