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 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 ...
NEJM Catalyst | Practical Innovations in Health Care Delivery
Jan 15, 2025 · NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, a peer-reviewed journal from NEJM Group, publishes twelve digital issues a year focusing on the latest innovations, big ideas, and practical solutions for health care delivery transformation.Explore the current issue and other information about the journal.
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.
Distinguishing Health Equity and Health Care Equity: A Framework …
Mar 7, 2023 · Amid a series of public health crises and social injustice tragedies, health equity has become a fundamental priority for policy makers and the entire health care industry. From government to profe...
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.
Patient Satisfaction Surveys - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2018 · Patient Satisfaction is one performance measure of health care quality. The authors of this Hastings study describe three domains of patient satisfaction: the delivery of essential medical care; treatments sought by patients and their families (which may or may not be favorable to good health); and the provider activities and behaviors that comprise compassionate care and the safeguarding of ...
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 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 ...
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.