Academic medical centers have a great deal of influence in different areas of healthcare, as they have a three-pronged focus of patient care, medical research and clinician education. This sets them ...

St. Michael Medical Center has become a medical hub on the West Sound. Not only is the Silverdale facility providing care for residents in Kitsap but – as the only hospital on the peninsula offering ...

Ochsner Health's Healthy State initiative targets social determinants to improve Louisiana's health outcomes, showing early success in smoking cessation and cancer screening rates. Workforce ...

Advances in medicine have extended life for millions of Americans, but longer lives often come with a price: a higher ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Cellphones are everywhere, including in the hands of homeless people, a population among America's sickest—average life expectancy is just 51—and among the hardest to reach by health care workers.

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) across the country are finding themselves at a turning point. For years, there have been warnings of the imminent transition from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-value ...

In a recent cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the United States of America (US) investigated, at the county level, the association between medical debt and ...

The Beebe Healthcare hospital in Sussex County, Delaware. A feasibility study says no single health care system in the county — Beebe Healthcare, Bayhealth or TidalHealth — has enough resources on its ...

I believe one of the reasons for only incremental growth of value-based care is the lack of access health systems have to timely, comprehensive data and the actionable insights required to effectively ...

Florida's population spike has pulled the state into a health insurance crisis as it grapples with a homeowners insurance crisis. The state is home to 22.6 million people, pressuring the health care ...