How can health care organizations advance health equity when political, legal, and cultural forces are making the work more ...

Food Is Medicine (FIM) programs promote patients’ access to healthy foods to help prevent, manage, and treat diet-related health conditions. Although these programs have burgeoned in recent years, ...

Healthcare risk management comprises the systems and processes employed to uncover, mitigate, and prevent risks in healthcare institutions. Understand its purpose, elements, the risk manager’s role, ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

How private and public stakeholders must synchronize their efforts to achieve setting-agnostic coordinated care.

An analysis of the systems in Massachusetts (USA), the Netherlands, Norway, and England (UK) reveals structural differences and variation in emphasis on programs used to effect value in care delivery.

Changing health care is a complex adaptive problem, with variation introduced at the patient, physician, geographic, supply, and reimbursement levels, resulting in wide discrepancies in health care ...

Findings from a 12-month pilot show that increased medication costs from greater adherence were more than offset by a reduction in key care utilization measures, with even greater impact among memb ...

The impact of using AI to guide patient care or operational processes depends on the interplay between the AI model’s output, the decision-making protocol based on that output, the capacity of the ...

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 ...

As social needs screening gains steam, health systems should take steps to make their screening programs more patient centered and effective.