Clinical quality measures implemented into federal quality programs are vetted by organizations such as CMS’s consensus-based entity by applying a set of criteria against individual measures to assess ...

The future of integrated care depends on ensuring that clinicians are trained to to connect a patient's physical symptoms, ...

A whole health value-based approach should address all major drivers to improve overall health. Here, we describe how a whole health population-based VBP arrangement can address the key aspects of ...

Health care globally is failing to secure patient trust and satisfaction. Of 27 countries surveyed in the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer, trust in health care averaged 66 percent. In the United States, ...

Preventative care, robust technology, and dedicated clinicians are key ingredients in the recipe for successful value-based care. Advocate Health generated $135.7 million in savings in 2023 from two ...

Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges that ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. California’s ...

Raising the visibility of the importance of trust in patient-clinician relationships can help ensure it is acknowledged and incorporated into policy and tactical considerations. In the absence of a ...

Big Tech and retail giants continue to expand into healthcare, investing more money in value-based care and putting more pressure on hospitals and health systems to bend the cost curve and prioritize ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Pretty much everyone in the U.S. agrees that the American health care system is not working for patients. The disagreement comes over what to do about ...