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

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 ...

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 ...

We need to redesign the care delivery model in a way that allows physicians to be the good doctors they are while still providing patients with full access to care.

An Insights Council survey shows disparities in care delivery at health care organizations and interpersonal racism affecting clinicians and staff, but also many programs and training to combat the ...

Health care leaders are often surprised to learn that their operations contribute significantly to a warming climate. In addition to their roles as responders to and victims of extreme weather events, ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...