Horizontal consolidation in the hospital industry has gained momentum in the United States despite concerns over rising costs and lower quality. Hospital systems frequently point to potential gains in ...

In the first article of this series, we explored a simple but powerful idea: Health care behaves not like a machine, but like ...

Since the end of World War II, the health system in the United States (US) has evolved into a multi-layered web of complex institutional relationships, ...

“We shape our buildings,” Winston Churchill once said, “and afterwards our buildings shape us.” The same could be said of an organization’s structure and its ongoing impact on members of the public, ...

We are trying to fix health care as if it were complicated. In reality, health care is complex.

Gain insights into national trends on organizational well-being documented in the AMA 2023 national benchmark report. This podcast will delve into key findings from more than 20,000 physicians and ...

Even with significant organizational investment in cross-system coordination, primary care providers report a range of ...

Low or limited health literacy is a predictor of poorer health outcomes and health disparities. Patient populations in the United States who are at higher risk of low/limited health literacy are ...