One-on-one interviews with leaders in health care, providing perspectives on what’s working in the industry, what’s not, and why. Find more about us at https://catalyst.nejm.org.
The Mangomoment: Small Acts of Health Care Kindness and Leadership
Everyone in health care can integrate Mangomoments into their daily practice.
1/10/2024 • 0
System-Level Change Management with a Population Health Lens
Sustainable, forward-looking health care systems need to provide community-based care while managing risk-based economic models and populations.
11/9/2023 • 0
Transforming from Inconsistent Greatness
The bar is not set for high-performing health care systems. It’s moving, with many opportunities to improve beyond inconsistent greatness. Transformation involves changes in mindsets, culture, and processes, along with a particular approach to care delivery.
11/6/2023 • 0
Setting the Benchmark: Improving Outcomes for All
With core outcome measures set for ICHOM, the next step is maintaining focus on implementation.
8/25/2023 • 0
RETOOL: Engaging with Gig Workers for the Foreseeable Future
A six-component model for including gig workers as valued members of the health care team.
8/2/2023 • 0
Carbon Neutral Care Is Not Impossible
How Kaiser Permanente became the first carbon-neutral health system and the eighth-largest user of solar energy in the United States.
7/28/2023 • 0
Population Health Management: The Next Big Inflection in Health Care
The external and internal factors necessary for population health management in the transformation to value-based care.
6/8/2023 • 0
Value-Based Care in Action: A Growing, Necessary Disruption to the Status
Quo
With health care in crisis, switching to value-based care is a necessary disruption that organizations and nations must take.
5/22/2023 • 0
You May Never Use It, but You Build It Anyway: Preparing Health Systems for Tragic Events
The purpose of health care systems is not just to cure illness. To make a dent, they must be part of their communities, addressing inequities in care.
5/9/2023 • 0
With PROMs, It Matters What You’re Measuring
When it comes to PROMs, there’s a difference between measuring something important to patients’ treatments versus important to their lives.
5/3/2023 • 0
Health Care Is Simple but Profound
Health cannot be achieved unless health care also addresses mental health and social care.
4/27/2023 • 0
What’s Up with Health Misinformation?
Health care does not begin when someone walks in the door of their doctor’s office, but when they search online for videos and articles and then act on that information — whether good or bad.
1/31/2023 • 0
Weathering Storms as Pandemic Prep: How Katrina Aided Ochsner’s Response to Covid-19
From generators to digital medicine, Ochsner has bolstered its processes to be ready for the worst.
11/7/2022 • 0
Health Equity, Environmental Sustainability, Workforce: The Joint Commission’s Three Strategic Priorities
A directional approach from The Joint Commission on three key areas of health care quality improvement.
10/25/2022 • 0
Communication Innovation in the Covid-19 Era
How creating a short TV show with health care leadership captured the attention of staff at Vanderbilt far more than written communication.
10/21/2022 • 0
Equitable Kidney Disease Care: Far from Perfect, Far from Done
The Chief Medical Officer for DaVita Kidney Care discusses how the organization is addressing health inequities in the kidney disease population.
9/7/2022 • 0
Advancing Health Care Affordability in Massachusetts and Beyond
The CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts describes his work in making population-based contracts a norm in the state and what still needs to be done to improve health care affordability and access.
7/1/2022 • 0
Racial Equity Plan: Developing Specific Actions for Anti-Racist Health Care
The Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence for Vanderbilt Medical Center discusses the development of their Racial Equity Plan.
6/24/2022 • 0
Improving Care for the Intellectually Disabled
Intellectual disabilities affect 1–3% of the U.S. population. The Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Prisma Health discusses how health care redesign should factor in this population to reduce the health disparities they face.
6/1/2022 • 0
Full Lifecycle Interventions for Addressing Social Determinants of Health
How Priority Health focuses on social determinants of health to meet its members’ unique needs.
3/4/2022 • 0
Covid-19 Learnings from the Ebola Crisis
The CEO for Texas Health Resources says that “learning has to be done quickly” and describes what his organization has done to meet the needs of their patients and staff.
1/26/2022 • 0
Confronting Racial Disparities in C-Suite Health Care Leadership
Hurdles faced by a Chinese American breaking into the C-suite sphere of U.S. health care leadership dominated by white men, the adapting of different cultural values, and advice for younger generations aspiring to the C-suite.
12/17/2021 • 0
Confronting the Nursing Crisis by Recontextualizing Its Past and Reenvisioning Its Future
The former CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System, who began his career in nursing, traces the history of the nursing shortage back to the 1970s and offers a selection of solutions for its current iteration, focusing on short-, medium-, and long-term tactics.