Background The annual births in our hospital (a regional perinatal centre for the southeastern coastal region) had increased ...

The authors drafted a “Shared Values of Collaborative Care” document with fundamental principles to make better group decisions in implementing collaborative care. We established core principles of ...

As hospitals and health systems prepare for changes brought on by healthcare reform, these providers are examining how they can approach and build new models of care, whether they involve ACOs, ...

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

Technology could prevent unnecessary transfers and billions in hospital costs, experts say. Credit: FangXiaNuo/Getty Images Nursing homes are on the frontier of new care models and technology ...

For decades, chronic disease management in Medicare has been hampered by a fee-for-service payment system that rewards volume and activity rather than true clinical improvement. This model created ...

The SCORE trial evaluated shared follow-up care between oncologists and GPs for colorectal cancer survivors, revealing broad support for the model. Key themes included the need for improved ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the voluntary States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model in which participating hospitals would receive a ...

Each year, over 20 thousand foster youth age out of care at 18 years old. While testifying before Congress, one former foster youth said, “When I graduated high school, the adults I relied on vanished ...