Health Care 2030: The Coming Transformation | NEJM Catalyst
Mar 3, 2021 · Health Care 2030: The Coming Transformation. The next decade will see major shifts in the design of health systems and health care, propelled by digital health, growing consumerism, mounting financial constraints, and accelerated by Covid-19.
A Nurse Is Not Just a Nurse: The Challenges of Nursing During a ...
Mar 17, 2021 · The Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for CommonSpirit Health discusses challenges nurses are facing during the Covid-19 pandemic, predominantly in terms of staffing, burnout, and compassion fatigue and PTSD; how burnout has been a problem in nursing for decades; and involving nurses in the vision for the future of health care ...
What Is Patient-Centered Care? - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2017 · The primary goal and benefit of patient-centered care is to improve individual health outcomes, not just population health outcomes, although population outcomes may also improve. Not only do patients benefit, but providers and health care systems benefit as well, through: •. Improved satisfaction scores among patients and their families.
Health Inequity and Racism Affects Patients and Health Care …
Feb 17, 2021 · Advisor Analysis. Covid-19 is taking a toll on health care organizations’ ability to provide equitable access to care, revealing that much work needs to be done to overcome disparities in care, according to a recent NEJM Catalyst Insights Council survey on health equity. “The Covid-19 pandemic has magnified issues to the extent that ...
Transforming Care and Outcomes with Digital Health Through and …
May 31, 2022 · Proactive and pervasive use of effective digital health solutions is key to progress on the path to safer, higher-quality care for all, but progress also will depend on addressing persistent barriers to transformative change and alignment with overall health and care strategies. Jennifer Zelmer and Aziz Sheikh have nothing to disclose.
Reforming Health Care: The Single System Solution
Aug 19, 2020 · The flaws of the U.S. health care system have been exposed and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. This paper posits three underlying causes of our persistent poor performance: flawed assumptions; inadequate information; and fragmented delivery, payment, and insurance systems that make it easier to profit by shifting risk or costs to others than by improving value.
Patient Satisfaction Surveys - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2018 · Patient satisfaction surveys attempt to translate subjective results into meaningful, quantifiable, and actionable data. Patient satisfaction surveys capture self-reported patient assessments of multiple touchpoints during their medical care experience. Depending on what aspect of patient satisfaction is being measured, examples may include ...
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. The physical and moral harm experienced by ED staff is also substantial.
Development and Expression of a High-Reliability Organization
Nov 17, 2021 · Abstract. Health care organizations have increasingly adopted the principles of high-reliability organizations to improve their safety and quality. These principles must be built into the culture of the organization as well as into the systems and frameworks used to improve processes and evaluate outcomes in a learning health care system.
What Is Value-Based Healthcare? - NEJM Catalyst
Jan 1, 2017 · Value-based healthcare is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid based on patient health outcomes. Under value-based care agreements, providers are rewarded for helping patients improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease, and live healthier lives in an evidence ...