Having a health plan and a delivery system under one roof does not guarantee better care or lower costs. Geisinger’s approach combines shared accountability, clinical collaboration, and operating ...

Health care organizations don’t have to build everything themselves. Hartford HealthCare’s approach to partnering combines shared purpose, consistent governance, and an integrated patient ...

Chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease pose growing challenges to health systems worldwide, particularly in settings where access to high-quality peritoneal dialysis (PD) services remains ...

Gynecologic diseases are a significant yet often underrecognized global health burden, negatively impacting women’s quality of life. In China, county-level public hospitals serve as the primary ...

Caring for Covid-19 patients poses a high risk of short- and long-term psychological distress to hospital employees. Rush University System for Health has developed a simple, practical framework for ...

NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say their organizations have embraced newer weight loss medications yet maintain the importance of other treatments and prevention of obesity.

Racism, cultural mistrust, miscommunication, chronic illness bred by limited food and living choices, and lived experience bind together communities of color as disparate as the Navajo Nation and ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

Coordination of primary, specialty, and subspecialty care is a central component to ensure that patients receive timely and effective treatment. In relation to referrals for specialty care, gaps in ...

NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say improving equity in health care is personally important to them, but real progress is lacking.

After more than a decade of extraordinary progress, the international movement for value-based health care needs to embrace a new strategic ambition.

The index incorporates both patient-level and population-level data from 93 measures that are representative of social, physical, and behavioral factors of health to measure whole-person health.