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

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

Trustworthiness, as described by the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Health Justice, is a “necessary precursor to trust that is rooted in honesty and honors lived experience.” It ...

Hospitals and health systems in the U.S. face a growing demand for healthcare services while dealing with staffing challenges and increased labor costs. Healthcare leaders are increasingly turning to ...

The healthcare industry is undergoing large and fundamental changes with implications that are not fully visible. The Patient Protection Accountable Care Act, which was an important catalyst for the ...

This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

Artificial intelligence is being deployed among most surveyed health systems, though less than a fifth reported having fleshed out internal governance and a strategy around the technology, according ...

Hospitals and health systems across the United States are experiencing significant shortages of health care professionals.

Maria Sutherland’s heartbreaking account of her son’s death (“He didn’t think he had a problem,” Oct. 31) doesn’t just make me sad — it makes me angry and frustrated. New Mexico’s system of treatment ...

Every hospital bought by West Virginia University Health System is photographed, framed and hung on a Mountaineer Blue wall at the nonprofit’s headquarters. The effect is a visual timeline of the ...