This article presents a telehealth-enabled care redesign at MedStar Health in a large, employed primary care group. The goal of the Connected Primary Care program is to improve patient access and ...

After treating more than 21,000 low-risk patients in low-risk surgeries across multiple specialties over a 41-month period, no increased unplanned returns to the operating room or hospital admissions ...

NYU Langone Health’s Patient Experience Book Club demonstrates how simple, low-cost initiatives can foster meaningful connections among health care workers while improving professional well-being ...

We need to redesign the care delivery model in a way that allows physicians to be the good doctors they are while still providing patients with full access to care. Physician shortages are a worsening ...

Penn Medicine launched a 24-7 telemedicine respiratory therapist (eRT) service as part of its tele–critical care medicine (tele-CCM) service serving seven hospitals and more than 320 critical care ...

AI THEME ISSUE: In the first prospective clinical validation of an AI system to reduce delayed and missed care, more than 29,000 radiology reports at Northwestern Medicine were flagged for follow-u ...

The Covid-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink the role of emergency departments and emergency physicians, and to create new care options that remove traditional barriers to effective ...

As communities develop targeted programs to improve access to and administration of vaccines in underserved populations, the Vaccine Equity Index (VEI) can be applied as a simple and objective method ...

A study across 547 U.S. health care organizations finds that individuals with intellectual disabilities are at substantially increased risk of dying from Covid-19.

Penn Medicine’s Cancer Care at Home program, established to address clinical, administrative, and financial obstacles to delivering certain cancer drugs at home, enabled hundreds of cancer patients to ...

Integrated pain management programs are key to fighting opioid abuse, but they face significant challenges in financing, access, and public understanding.

Racism, cultural mistrust, miscommunication, chronic illness bred by limited food and living choices, and lived experience bind together communities of color as disparate as the Navajo Nation and ...