This podcast from NEJM Catalyst features interviews with leaders in health care as they discuss innovative ideas and actionable solutions for enhancing the value of health care delivery, providing perspectives on what's working in the industry, what's not, and why.
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How health care leaders can help prevent Medicaid coverage losses with coordinated communication, community partnerships, and practical support.
Why should physicians engage in health policy, and how can payment rules quietly steer care, innovation, and the spread of new models?
How HealthLocator can help patients find high-quality care while building trust, improving transparency, and supporting organizations in a more patient-centered quality ecosystem.
Can a scalable, technology-enabled platform make value-based care work across fragmented health care systems? Early results from Risant Health suggests it can.
How can health system leaders move beyond treating gun violence as an injury event to address it as a preventable public health crisis?
How can health care organizations advance health equity when political, legal, and cultural forces are making the work more difficult?
How the actions of Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden through personal experience, leadership, and legislature reveal their greatest health care victories while president.
Two Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation directors, past and present, compare notes on how the center maintains its mission of making care more affordable and accountable through administration changes.
What’s driving the shift from an individual leader for academic medical centers to a team-based operational leader and how to proceed to that transformation.
How Mayo Clinic Health System is transforming care for largely rural communities while reshaping culture, workforce, and AI-enabled practice across a widely dispersed network.
How an academic medical center emerged from financial deficits, workforce turnover, and low morale to become a high-performing, trusted system that defines what “great” will mean for academic medical centers in the decades ahead.
How can health care leaders refresh the high-reliability organization (HRO) concept to address today’s workforce shortages, AI integration, and complex care delivery demands?
How a physician coach can create growth through vulnerability and help view clinical practice in an entirely new way.
After a decade of disappointment with electronic health records that turned physicians into data-entry clerks, generative AI is emerging as the transformative force that will restore the physician-patient relationship while solving health care’s most intractable operational challenges.
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 and institutional engagement through shared reading experiences.
A pilot program at Parkland Health uses “courtesy and respect” stickers on hand sanitizer dispensers to make respectful communication as ingrained as hand hygiene.
How one organization is tackling primary care issues by reducing burnout, building team-based models, and using technology to create a better practice environment.
Working together as a team to better communicate between physicians and nurses as well as the complete caregiving team will enhance the experience for patients.
How to excel at both curing and caring with an understanding of the distinction.
How do we produce better health outcomes and an exceptional experience at a lower cost, at scale, every day? Learn how a large health care services company is striving to serve its population’s physical, mental, pharmacy, social, and financial needs through three core areas: value-based care, pharmacy services, and technology...
Advocating to transform soft skills into hard skills to improve patient and caregiver experiences.
How the importance of physician leadership that understands the financial aspects of health care can lead to unique roles that directly work toward improving patient care and financial operations.
Successful health care technology adoption requires moving beyond the boardroom to understand workflow integration, cultural dynamics, and operational processes that determine whether innovations become indispensable clinical partners or abandoned tools.
Health care transformation requires more than isolated innovation efforts — it demands a global ecosystem where institutions become engines of entrepreneurship, spinning out solutions from within while collaborating across borders to scale impact and achieve financial sustainability.
How can a simple, systemwide framework empower 20,000 frontline staff and leaders across Scripps Health to boost retention, reduce costs, and drive operational excellence — all while keeping patients at the center? Dr. Ghazala Sharieff reveals how the six Rs turned bold goals into everyday actions, building a common language...
