NEJM Catalyst | Practical Innovations in Health Care Delivery
NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, a peer-reviewed journal from NEJM Group, publishes twelve digital issues a year focusing on the latest innovations, big ideas, and practical solutions for health care delivery transformation.Explore the current issue and other information about the journal.
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 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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
Healthcare Big Data and the Promise of Value-Based Care
Jan 1, 2018 · Despite these challenges, several new technological improvements are allowing healthcare big data to be converted to useful, actionable information. By leveraging appropriate software tools, big data is informing the movement toward value-based healthcare and is opening the door to remarkable advancements, even while reducing costs. With the wealth of information that healthcare data analytics ...
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 ...
Transforming Care and Outcomes with Digital Health Through and …
May 31, 2022 · While developments in technology offer great promise for care delivery, without appropriate governance — within health care organizations, regulatory agencies, and governments, locally and globally — the impact on public health and …
Innovation in Pursuit of Patient-Centered Care | NEJM Catalyst
Jun 19, 2024 · The Insights Report in this issue, “Keys to Measuring Patient-Centered Care,” highlights the perspectives NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members — who are clinicians and health care leaders from around the world — on incorporating patient feedback across the health care journey.In the related Insights Interview, “Understanding What Matters to Patients,” Council members from the ...