Health systems rethink innovation by embedding hospital-based labs and competitions to empower frontline teams and improve patient care.

Few industries in America are as storied, sprawling, and structurally complex as healthcare provision. Riddled with systemic challenges—such as soaring costs, staffing shortages, and labyrinthine ...

The technology is arriving faster than most health systems can evaluate it. Artificial intelligence tools, vendors and platforms are flooding the market, each promising to solve the problems that have ...

Societies around the world are in peril: Eroding trust. Backsliding democratic norms. Accelerating global challenges—from political instability and division to climate-related natural disasters and ...

Most organizations can point to a moment when a bold idea broke through, but far fewer can explain how that kind of thinking happens consistently. Sustained innovation usually depends less on bursts ...

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 ...

Global education funding was broken long before the recent cutbacks to international aid. Even at peak levels, traditional financing models that relied on donors delivered a frustrating cycle: ...

What if machines could not only learn but also teach themselves to think in ways that humans never imagined? This is no longer a hypothetical question—it’s the reality ushered in by the rise of ...

A consistent, strong correlation, if not a causal relationship, exists between property rights in inventions (patents) and growing innovation economies and flourishing societies. This is not ...