A common thread among these themes is the need for courage — courage to implement commonsense and well-known solutions to pressing and longstanding problems; courage to challenge the deeply entrenched ...
David C. Radley, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a senior scientist for the Commonwealth Fund’s Tracking Health System Performance initiative and director of data and analytics at the Center for Evidence-Based ...
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Summary: An innovative project in ...
Summary: Providers have proven eager adopters of health care "apps," the software applications used on cell phones and other mobile devices to perform specific tasks, such as charting data points or ...
Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.
Originally called the Commonwealth Fellowships, the Harkness Fellowships were initiated in 1925, just seven years after the founding of the Commonwealth Fund. The program was envisioned as a “reverse ...
Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...
The United States ranks last among 16 high-income, industrialized nations when it comes to deaths that could potentially have been prevented with timely access to effective health care, according to a ...