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NEJM Catalyst Practical innovations in health care delivery:

Ideas, solutions, and case studies to improve patient care and drive value in health organizations.

Health care delivery is undergoing a major transformation around quality, cost, and access. NEJM Catalyst brings health care executives, clinician leaders, and clinicians together to share innovative ideas and practical applications for enhancing the value of health care delivery. NEJM Catalyst brings insightful articles and real-life examples from a network of top thought leaders, experts and adv

isors to provide:

Practical innovations in health care delivery;

Impeccable quality and impact;

Active contributions from renowned authorities, thought-leaders, and advisors;

Independent and impartial curation; and

An exchange of ideas among executives and clinicians. NEJM Catalyst is produced by NEJM Group, a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society, located in Waltham, Massachusetts.

How an academic medical center, Emory Healthcare, emerged from financial deficits, workforce turnover, and low morale to...
05/01/2026

How an academic medical center, Emory Healthcare, emerged from financial deficits, workforce turnover, and low morale to become a high-performing, trusted system - Q&A with CEO Joon Lee: https://nej.md/49acjmG

A federal program to provide diagnostic testing and treatment to underserved communities via retail pharmacies during th...
04/30/2026

A federal program to provide diagnostic testing and treatment to underserved communities via retail pharmacies during the Covid-2019 pandemic bolstered public health resiliency and security: https://nej.md/4bZQkzC

Announcing a new supplemental issue, published in partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation Collective to Strengthen Pa...
04/30/2026

Announcing a new supplemental issue, published in partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation Collective to Strengthen Pathways for Health Research: "Toward a Healthier Future - Building a Science of Health Beyond Biomedical Discovery." https://nej.md/4up0th0

A nationwide conversation among research, medicine, health systems, local government, and community leaders showed that we cannot reap the full societal return of the impressive gains made in biomedical research without deeper and more strategic and systematic investment in health solutions science — a vital but underrecognized piece of the U.S. research enterprise.

This collection of work from 18 national symposia showcases examples of health services research in action as a form of health solutions science.

A 4-year study of cataract surgeons found that access to an unmasked peer benchmarking dashboard, supported by a noncoer...
04/30/2026

A 4-year study of cataract surgeons found that access to an unmasked peer benchmarking dashboard, supported by a noncoercive, nonpunitive organizational culture, was associated with changes in surgical indications, improved average patient outcomes, and reduced low-value procedures: https://nej.md/4sUa92D

A decade’s worth of public data from hospitals in Madrid suggests that value-based hospital outsourcing is associated wi...
04/29/2026

A decade’s worth of public data from hospitals in Madrid suggests that value-based hospital outsourcing is associated with improved clinical outcomes, greater efficiency, and increased patient satisfaction: https://nej.md/4bPA2uj

Broader access to learning about innovation skills and processes, as well as venture development and integration, is bec...
04/29/2026

Broader access to learning about innovation skills and processes, as well as venture development and integration, is becoming increasingly important across the health care landscape and can be deployed via multiple methods across varied locations for learners at different career stages: https://nej.md/4sUMS0u

Leadership development programs must justify the substantial investment involved. MD Anderson Cancer Center developed a ...
04/28/2026

Leadership development programs must justify the substantial investment involved. MD Anderson Cancer Center developed a rigorous evaluation framework to measure the value of their leadership programs: https://nej.md/48gPVaT

NEJM Catalyst and the John A. Hartford Foundation invite manuscripts for an upcoming theme issue on implementation, scal...
04/28/2026

NEJM Catalyst and the John A. Hartford Foundation invite manuscripts for an upcoming theme issue on implementation, scaling, and impact of the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) 4Ms Framework.

Learn more and share your work: https://nej.md/4kNTpXw

Deadline: June 1

A carefully planned and executed strategy for system integration can yield greater operational efficiency, meaningful im...
04/28/2026

A carefully planned and executed strategy for system integration can yield greater operational efficiency, meaningful improvements in patient care, and progressive cultural alignment: https://nej.md/47GFPzW

An optical recognition–enabled intervention to identify and reroute urgent referral faxes demonstrated high precision an...
04/27/2026

An optical recognition–enabled intervention to identify and reroute urgent referral faxes demonstrated high precision and supported a redesigned system-level staffing and workflow model that has been associated with a 96.8% reduction in processing time for urgent referrals, from 33 hours to about 63 minutes: https://nej.md/3Q4m537

Listen to/read our conversation with Editor-in-Chief Tom Lee and Joon Lee, CEO of Emory Healthcare, who describes how Em...
04/27/2026

Listen to/read our conversation with Editor-in-Chief Tom Lee and Joon Lee, CEO of Emory Healthcare, who describes how Emory confronted severe post–Covid-19 pandemic challenges — high turnover, dependence on contract labor, financial losses, and eroded trust — and used them as a catalyst for long-term transformation: https://nej.md/49acjmG

This case study describes the development, implementation, and impact of a multiyear cultural reinforcement initiative a...
04/27/2026

This case study describes the development, implementation, and impact of a multiyear cultural reinforcement initiative at a large academic medical center that aimed to improve workforce behavior, patient experience, and workplace culture: https://nej.md/4bQqy1R

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