Missed opportunities for diagnosis are a critical subset of diagnostic errors that can lead to adverse patient outcomes. These errors frequently arise from failures in the diagnostic process, ...

An initiative at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York contributed to an increase in lung cancer screening rates to 71.6% among 11,136 patients in June 2025 from 32.8% among 8,620 ...

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 ...

Generative AI in health care is rapidly enlarging the already substantial environmental footprint of this sector. The massive energy needs, water consumption, metal use, and e-waste generation of AI ...

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 ...

By developing and deploying specialized technology and teams of community health workers, care coordinators, social workers, and pharmacists, Waymark, a public-benefit company, was able to reduce E ...

There was no direct financial support for this project. Stacy Wood, Leah Rosengaus, and Roderick Thompson have nothing to disclose. Kavita Patel is a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates, ...

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 ...

Leaders at King’s College London are spearheading an effort to launch the Better Health and Care Futures initiative, which will harness the power of careforce, frugal innovations, and communities to ...

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed many challenges in the United States’ public health systems, and in particular the antiquated data ecosystem that hinders the nation’s ability to use timely data to ...

The HealthPartners Institute is a research and education division embedded within HealthPartners — a nonprofit, member-governed integrated health system. The Institute aims to generate and accelerate ...

Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion that a Covid-19 pandemic-related spike in quitting has had ...