The Other Victims of the Opioid Epidemic
Interview with Dr. Susan Glod on provision of adequate pain relief during the opioid crisis. I’d seen Jerry in pain before, but never like this. He lay prostrate on the gurney in the emergency...
View ArticleEngaging Physicians in Telehealth
Everybody knows that physicians must embrace 21st-century communication and information technologies to improve health outcomes and increase convenience for patients. Telehealth allows patients to...
View ArticleSurvey Snapshot: What Patient Engagement Technology Is Good For
Our most recent NEJM Catalyst Patient Engagement survey asks Insights Council members about the benefits, barriers, and promise of patient engagement technology tools. Carol Peden, MB ChB, MD, FRCA,...
View ArticlePatient Engagement Survey: Technology Tools Gain Support — But Cost Is a Hurdle
Analysis of the third NEJM Catalyst Insights Council Survey on Patient Engagement. Qualified executives, clinical leaders, and clinicians may join the Insights Council and share their perspectives on...
View ArticleOpenNotes: How the Power of Knowing Can Change Health Care
The OpenNotes initiative began in 2010 as a year-long demonstration project, with 105 primary care physicians at three diverse U.S. health care centers inviting 20,000 patients to read visit notes...
View ArticleWhat’s More Valuable Than a Healthy Choice? Making Lifestyle Medicine...
It is well known that unhealthy behaviors, such as tobacco use, poor nutrition, and lack of physical activity, contribute to chronic illness and premature death in the United States. About half of all...
View ArticleFrom Co-Located to Integrated Teams: How Utah’s Neurobehavior HOME Program...
The Challenge Integrating patient care in clinical practices sounds appealing but involves changing traditional reporting relationships and patterns of care delivery. Co-location of personnel and...
View ArticleWalking with Our Patients in the Community
Patients with complex physical, behavioral, and social needs present unique challenges to the health care system, including disproportionately high costs. These patients are often sick, immobile, and...
View ArticleReading List: Victor Montori
We asked NEJM Catalyst Thought Leaders to tell us the books and articles that have been “game-changers” for them — the ones that have really affected the way they think about health care and their...
View ArticlePhysician Vulnerability: What’s in It for Me?
Asking physicians to establish human relationships with their patients makes them vulnerable — not something many are comfortable with. “What’s the ‘what’s in it for me?’ to be vulnerable and establish...
View ArticleCollaborative Care for Depression in a Safety-Net Health System
The Challenge Depression is pervasive (13% of Americans and nearly 20% of Medicaid recipients) and more common in people with chronic disease, affecting 17% of people with cardiovascular disease and...
View ArticleImplementing Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
In addition to saving lives, our primary mission in health care is to improve the lives of patients. This means reducing symptoms like chest pain or incontinence, or helping people walk better or open...
View ArticleMerging Mental and Physical Health Care
Mental health services in the Medicaid space faces two major issues: a lack of long-term services, and a need for better integration with physical health. Anya Rader Wallack asks Arkansas Medicaid...
View ArticleFour Ingredients for Engaging Physicians in a Network Setting
Many health care leaders believe independent physician practices can’t perform well in the current environment because they’re not in a tight system with enough influence over provider behavior. I know...
View ArticleMy Favorite Slide: The Intersection of Home-Based Primary Care and Home-Based...
Almost 2 million older adults are completely or mostly homebound, and another 5.5 million are semi-homebound — i.e., they are dependent on others or have difficulty leaving the home. The homebound are...
View ArticleSurvey Snapshot: Health Care Providers on the Problems of Patient Engagement...
Better patient engagement is a nearly universal goal for health care providers, but real barriers exist, say health care leaders and clinicians. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of respondents to NEJM...
View ArticleOpenNotes: How the Power of Knowing Can Change Health Care
The OpenNotes initiative began in 2010 as a year-long demonstration project, with 105 primary care physicians at three diverse U.S. health care centers inviting 20,000 patients to read visit notes...
View ArticleThe Power of Social Connectedness
Why is mobilizing social networks so powerful for health? Michele Heisler, MD, MPA, Professor of Internal Medicine, Health Behavior, and Health Education at the University of Michigan emphasizes two...
View ArticleMaking American Health Care Great Again, by Repealing and Replacing the ACA
During the past election season, much of the discussion we heard about health care focused on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the ACA — and most often what is wrong with...
View ArticlePopulation Health — A Bipartisan Agenda for the Incoming Administration from...
The common goal of health policy leaders at the level of state government in the United States is promoting the health and well-being of all populations to the greatest extent possible within fixed...
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