The authors suggest that assessment of patient-centered care may be improved by flagging probable discordance between a patient’s preferences and their treatment care plan. Patient-centered care, ...

After receiving three consecutive “C” grades, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital showed enough improvement in practices to get an “A” rating from the Leapfrog Group in the organization’s most ...

Elizabeth Grush, MBA, speaks to the support, benefits, and holistic considerations that patient-centered care can provide for the betterment of patient experiences and outcomes. Successful ...

Systems thinking is an accepted approach for healthcare organizations to deliver better patient care. By designing programs that focus on patients as a whole person and member of the care team, as ...

Editor's Note: In a recent Health Affairs essay titled “What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist,” Don Berwick surveyed the debate in the health policy community over how the ...

American health care is too often overpriced, impersonal, and dysfunctional. Too many middlemen and regulations in the health care system are driving up costs, increasing complexity, burning out our ...

The management of cancer during pregnancy requires a patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach to balance maternal and fetal well-being given the rarity of this clinical scenario and lack of ...

“Safety-net” health care organizations are a critical backbone of the US healthcare system, providing care to millions regardless of their ability to pay. Despite significant variability in how the ...

In short, health professionals on both sides of the debate should strive to improve access to compassionate, evidence-based and patient-centered care in order to fight weight stigma and end diet ...

Long-term VBC success hinges on robust data integrity and seamless integration across clinical, claims, government and personal health data sources.

Building a healthcare business from the ground up is a daunting endeavor. It’s a journey filled with various challenges both internally and externally. Those challenges include securing a large amount ...