Angel Robot and a New Smart Health Paradigm
Learning is a lifetime pursuit for most people and required for most occupations. If you ask which occupations require the strictest nonstop learning, the two likely candidates are medical doctor and...
View ArticleSurvey Snapshot: Mega-Mergers and Telemedicine Accelerate Convenient Care Growth
While retail health and other convenient care options have been steadily reshaping the health care industry for some time, recent mergers such as CVS Health–Aetna and the growing use of...
View ArticleStrangers No More: Culturally Competent Add-On Programs for Diverse Seniors
The Culture Paradigm Business is always brisk at Bazaar, a small food store in Brookline, Massachusetts. One of the main local purveyors of Russian and Eastern European staples, Bazaar offers...
View ArticleNo Place Like Home: Bringing Inpatient Care to the Patient
Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc. (SHP), part of Marshfield Clinic Health System, was the first payer to implement Home Recovery Care (HRC), a care model that brings all the essential elements of...
View ArticleCare Redesign Survey: To Improve Chronic Disease Care, Change the Payment Model
Analysis of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council Survey on Chronic Care Models. Qualified executives, clinical leaders, and clinicians may join the Insights Council and share their perspectives on health...
View ArticleRipe for Disruption: Why and How Big Players in the Private Sector Are Taking...
Namita Seth Mohta, MD, interviews David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, President of The Commonwealth Fund, and Robert Galvin, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer for Equity Healthcare. Namita Seth Mohta: This is...
View Article“Putting All the Pieces Back”: Lessons from a Health Care–Led Jail Reentry Pilot
The Challenge Many contemporary care redesign initiatives aim to change health care delivery to better serve patients who face complex medical, behavioral, and social challenges. Often, these patients...
View ArticleCareful and Kind Care Requires Unhurried Conversations
As we argue in Why We Revolt, careful and kind care makes the health care system responsive and responsible to patients and clinicians. Within unhurried conversations, patients and clinicians work...
View ArticlePay for Relationship: A Novel Solution to the Primary Care Crisis
More than a decade after the publication of the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), primary care remains in crisis. Peer-reviewed studies of the medical home suggest...
View ArticleAssessing and Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care
The Challenge It is well established that social determinants of health (SDOH), the broad set of economic and social systems that shape the conditions of daily life, impact health outcomes and...
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