When it comes to health care costs, more than half (52%) of Hispanic/Latino adults said that, because of costs, they either ...

Elizabeth Seeley, M.S., Ph.D., is a health policy consultant and adjunct lecturer on health policy and management in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of ...

J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., is the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a general internist at Brigham and ...

States' efforts to improve patient safety have grown in number and scope in recent years, prompted by concerns for patients' welfare as well as rising health care budgets and evidence of the excessive ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

Remote patient monitoring models across Europe offer valuable insights for identifying best practices that could be adopted ...

There is a growing health care divide in the United States, where vulnerable populations—those lacking health insurance, low-income families, and racial and ethnic minorities—are at higher risk for ...

The Commonwealth Fund has its origins in the philanthropic efforts of the Harkness family. Stephen V. Harkness began his career in New York State’s Finger Lakes region at age 15 as an apprentice ...

Robert A. Berenson, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. He is an expert in health care policy, particularly Medicare, with experience practicing medicine, serving in senior positions in ...

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Stephen P. Dunn, a 2003-4 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is a senior policy advisor in the Department of Health in England. He was ...

Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a critical component of assessing whether clinicians are improving the health of patients. Unlike process measures, which capture provider productivity ...

Cindy Mann is a partner with Manatt Health. She has more than 30 years of experience in federal and state health policy, focused on health coverage, financing, access and operational issues. She ...