The American Hospital Association Committee on Research offers 20 examples of patient and family engagement strategies in its report, “Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals ...

Many healthcare communities have implemented programs to help patients with the plethora of issues that arise during the course of their medical care. Craig Brammer, a member of the Senior Leadership ...

Little is known about how racism and bias may be communicated in the medical record. This study used machine learning to analyze electronic health records (EHRs) from an urban academic medical center ...

Understanding precedes intervention. Patients’ anxiety often grows from personal or familial suffering or loss. Common origins include the following: When patients express fear, especially fear rooted ...

Editor's note: In addition to Susan Edgman-Levitan, this post is also coauthored by Tejal Gandhi. Recently, the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute brought together 40 patient ...

The first major impact of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) that most providers will feel comes from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program. MIPS rolls up and ...

Data Matching to Support Analysis of Cancer Epidemiology Among Veterans Compared With Non-Veteran Populations—An Exemplar in Brain Tumors Real world data (RWD) were from the Flatiron Health advanced ...