In the first article of this series, we explored a simple but powerful idea: Health care behaves not like a machine, but like ...

Healthcare organizations have been operating in survival mode. Protecting thin margins, managing workforce strain, and absorbing continuous disruption. These near-term pressures have been unavoidable ...

We are trying to fix health care as if it were complicated. In reality, health care is complex.

Trustworthiness, as described by the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Health Justice, is a “necessary precursor to trust that is rooted in honesty and honors lived experience.” It ...

The healthcare industry is undergoing large and fundamental changes with implications that are not fully visible. The Patient Protection Accountable Care Act, which was an important catalyst for the ...

This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...

In the health care industry, generative AI is growing savvier by the day. But despite the tech's rapid advancement—or because of it—some health care organizations are still deploying with caution.

Four major nonprofit health systems have come together to launch a holding company they’re describing as a springboard for the scalable delivery of quality care. Last week, Baylor Scott & White Health ...

Every hospital bought by West Virginia University Health System is photographed, framed and hung on a Mountaineer Blue wall at the nonprofit’s headquarters. The effect is a visual timeline of the ...

Maria Sutherland’s heartbreaking account of her son’s death (“He didn’t think he had a problem,” Oct. 31) doesn’t just make me sad — it makes me angry and frustrated. New Mexico’s system of treatment ...