Patient and Consumer Issues
Tailoring Complex-Care Management, Coordination, and Integration for High-Need, High-Cost Patients: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care
About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which commissioned expert papers on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health...
Workforce for 21st-Century Health and Health Care: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care
About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from...
Benefit Design to Promote Effective, Efficient, and Affordable Care: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care
About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which commissioned expert papers on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health policy by...
Systems Strategies for Better Health Throughout the Life Course: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care
About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which commissioned expert papers on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health policy by...
Democratizing Health: The Power of Community
“Plugging the voice of community into the right kind of political power grid will do more to create health and wellness than any other single intervention.” – (The California Endowment) The phrase “democratizing health care” is gaining popularity in...
Generating Knowledge from Best Care: Advancing the Continuously Learning Health System
In this Perspective, the authors aim to facilitate the growth of learning health environments by highlighting strategies and examples of operational and research collaborations within delivery system settings in the United States. Informed by empirical data,...
Optimizing Health Outcomes for Children with Asthma in Delaware: A Population Health Case Report
Background The transformation of the U.S. health care delivery system is under way. As health care providers and community-based partners recognize the impact of the multifaceted determinants of health that extend beyond the clinical setting, there is an “opportunity...
Daring to Change for Better Health, Partnerships, and Business
Now in its third year of data disclosure, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act has helped demystify financial connections between two critically linked health sector stakeholders: health care providers and pharmaceutical companies. This week, the 2015 figures...
