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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Achieving health equity is increasingly understood to be an essential priority for providers and for organizations throughout the larger health care system. The authors describe a four-tier model t ...

Primary care providers are spending more time responding to electronic patient requests and completing other tasks in their digital in-basket that do not require their level of expertise. This ...

Improving morale and reducing turnover with peer-support meetings and shared group email lists for clinicians.