Care Delivery Innovation Archives

Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets

Medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people — is on the rise.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Stacie Dusetzina shares new research on the results of one of the largest efforts ever to improve care and control costs for cancer patients.

COVID opened the door to treating addiction remotely. Now policymakers have to decide whether to keep telehealth around.

Ishani Ganguli on new research showing administrative burdens can be as a big a barrier to patient care as high costs.

Bapu Jena digs into research looking at what happens to Medicare spending when urgent care centers enter a market.

From the fear of shutting down to the exhaustion of reopening and the missed appointments in between.

Doctors are pushing millions more Americans to get screened for lung cancer, but the test comes with tricky risks and tough barriers.

Rachel Werner on new research looking at which patients have struggled to take advantage of telehealth during the pandemic.

A new federal effort races to virtually deploy critical care providers wherever they’re needed — from COVID hospitals to floods, fires, and even war.