Health systems across the country are restructuring their operating models to navigate an increasingly challenging healthcare landscape. Rising financial pressures, workforce shortages, inflation and ...

Leading health systems mastering care at home programs reduce readmissions and optimize acute care throughput with high ROI and patient satisfaction.

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Health systems scaled back or closed equity offices. Federal ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, technology companies have been racing to bring generative AI-powered tools to the healthcare market. However providers have faced a quandary about what — and ...

There is often a disconnect between the intended functionality of an artificial intelligence model and its actual functionality once it's integrated into healthcare workflows. Epic has developed an ...

With the introduction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Rural Health Transformation initiative and more ...

For those living in rural America, healthcare access is far from a guarantee. Whether it’s waking up at 4 a.m. to drive three hours to the nearest specialist, waiting six months for a routine checkup, ...

As we near the turnover of administrations, Health Affairs Forefront offers a series of articles from leaders at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services providing their thoughts on the major ...