The stark inequity in safe, affordable housing due to unfair policies and practices (e.g., redlining) underpins inequities across multiple social determinants of health (SDOH) and health outcomes.

AI THEME ISSUE: A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council shows broad and growing use of AI across clinical areas, functional applications, and data types.

Especially important during a pandemic, health care’s common challenge is making sure how we deliver care and change the structures of society actually contributes to the health of the people we ...

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed the hidden cracks in an already broken health care delivery system. To reassemble the system, make it easier for patients to receive better health outcomes and for ...

Following the deployment of a waiver flexibility to address hospital capacity demands related to the Covid-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continues to monitor ...

The index incorporates both patient-level and population-level data from 93 measures that are representative of social, physical, and behavioral factors of health to measure whole-person health.

Racism is an ongoing public health crisis, and racial inequities in health, many of which are institutionally derived, have proven resistant to attempts at their rectification. Brigham and Women’s ...

In this clinical–community partnership, data show that patients with moderate-to-severe depression scores who participate in a free monthly mobile market report improved PHQ-9 scores, with a 0.27-p ...

If we don’t have equity, we don’t have quality, says the CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Chief Medical Officer and Director of the ...

The transparent use of robust data on patient needs and provider performance opens opportunities for employers to take a leading role in improving the quality of health care delivered in the United ...

A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds widespread awareness of the importance of addressing social determinants of health, and increased data collection on health-related social needs.

Geriatricians are among the most satisfied specialists, so why don’t we have more of them? Author: Michael D. Cantor, MD, JD Author Info & Affiliations NEJM Catalyst ...