NEJM Catalyst | Practical Innovations in Health Care Delivery
Dec 18, 2024 · Health Care Workforce Innovation Theme Issue: A strategic initiative at Johns Hopkins Medicine incorporating the U.S. CDC’s Worksite Health ScoreCard, and supplementing that tool with supporting organizational infrastructure, has led to increases in the implementation of health promotion strategies that target both the personal health and the workplace environment of …
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 ...
Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribes to Alleviate the Burden of ...
Feb 21, 2024 · The burden of clinical documentation has become an enormous challenge for health care systems and produces clinician burnout, job dissatisfaction, and impaired physician–patient interactions, which are linked to potentially worsened quality of care. 1-5 The increasing complexity of documentation in the electronic health record (EHR) and the competing demands on clinicians have also resulted ...
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.
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 Pay for Performance in Healthcare? - NEJM Catalyst
Mar 1, 2018 · While private payers are also experimenting with and deploying pay for performance programs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spurred by the ACA, is leading the way in value-based care with a variety of payment models including several Pay for Performance systems.As the largest funder of healthcare at almost 40% of overall spending, CMS has developed various Pay for ...
What Is Value-Based Healthcare? - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2017 · Patients spend less money to achieve better health. Managing a chronic disease or condition like cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, COPD, or obesity can be costly and time-consuming for patients. Value-based care models focus on helping patients recover from illnesses and injuries more quickly and avoid chronic disease in the first place.