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.
What Is Telehealth? - NEJM Catalyst
Feb 1, 2018 · Learn more. Telehealth is defined as the delivery and facilitation of health and health-related services including medical care, provider and patient education, health information services, and self-care via telecommunications and digital communication technologies. Live video conferencing, mobile health apps, “store and forward” electronic ...
Global Horizons for Value-Based Care: Lessons Learned from the ...
Jun 28, 2022 · As global health care expenditures continue to rise due to aging populations and managing chronic diseases, providers, payers, and policy makers must shift their focus from traditional fee-for-service models to value-based care programs. Despite early progress in the value space, there have been delays in implementation to stand up value-based ...
Toward Higher-Value Health Care: A Multifaceted Approach
Nov 15, 2023 · Listen to the audio summary of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2023. Realizing higher-value health across its myriad dimensions is a complex interplay between care delivery, costs, quality, safety, and patient and provider experience. Collectively, this issue explores each of these core aspects of health ...
Patient Safety Performance: Reversing Recent Declines through …
Dec 12, 2022 · Weaknesses resulting from a patchwork of patient safety processes developed by individual health care organizations over the past quarter-century, exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, can be remedied through both local systems design support and widespread best practices uniformity.
Finding Joy in Medicine: A Remedy for Challenging Times
Sep 1, 2022 · Commentary. Finding Joy in Medicine: A Remedy for Challenging Times. The Veterans Health Administration uses the simple practices of framing, gratitude, and kindness as a remedy to burnout and a pathway to joy. Authors: Heather M.Gilmartin, PhD, NP, and SanjaySaint, MD, MPH Author Info & Affiliations. NEJM Catalyst.
2 years into the global Covid-19 vaccination campaign, misinformation remains a driving force behind vaccine hesitancy, leading to calls for action from the U.S. Surgeon General,1 the World Health Organization,2 and medical experts.3 Although health misinformation is not new, it has been exacerbated in this era of “fake news” and globalized social media.
Article Types and Submission Information | Author Center
Our strongest papers start with a strong and compelling rationale, or “why,” to introduce the topic or initiative. Submissions must include information and data that emphasizes the “how” more than than the “should.”. When appropriate given the topic, manuscripts must also include evidence, outcomes, results, challenges, and lessons ...
A Dynamic Clinical Decision Support Tool to Improve Primary Care ...
Mar 20, 2024 · The Family Health Centers at New York University Langone (FHC), a federally qualified health center network in New York City, created a novel clinical decision support (CDS) tool that alerts primary health care providers to patients’ gaps in care and triggers a dynamic, individualized order set on the basis of unique patient factors, enabling providers to readily act on each patient’s ...
Making the Business Case for Value-Based Dementia Care
Feb 15, 2023 · This article aims to make a business case for developing and maintaining programs for patients with dementia and their caregivers. Concrete guidance on tactics and steps that can help transform dementia care in a health care institution is provided. The authors argue that transitioning from a traditional fee-for-service payment model to a value ...