How can a simple, systemwide framework empower 20,000 frontline staff and leaders across Scripps Health to boost retention, ...

Effective board governance in complex health systems requires structured approaches that cascade quality and safety ...

As our health system moves toward value-based models which incentivize positive results rather than individual procedures and treatments, healthcare industry leaders increasingly are regarding the ...

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 ...

Following previously established professional and organizational precepts, the authors developed criteria and associated threshold triggers that allow recognition and, thus, declaration of Crisis ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weaknesses resulting from a patchwork of patient safety processes developed by individual health care organizations over the past quarter-century, exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, can be remedied ...

The President and CEO of The Joint Commission delves into the history of the organization and its various branches, which are all focused on inspiration, improvement, and accountability; its direct ...

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 ...

There is a growing recognition of the impacts of climate change on health and health care, especially as rising temperatures and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events make ...

The Patient Partnership Model reimagines group practice by integrating a remote workforce in support of a new care delivery approach, resulting in improved access, engagement, and outcomes for pati ...