Perspectives

An Equity Agenda for the Field of Health Care Quality Improvement

by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 15, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (IOM, 2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (IOM, 2001), the National Academy of Medicine convened the leaders...

Artificial Intelligence for Health Professions Educators

by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 8, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  A Call to Action Artificial intelligence (AI) is already impacting many facets of American life and is poised to dramatically alter the maintenance of health and the delivery of health care. The explosion of information available to inform the work of health...

Researchers Should Consider How Disparities Change Over Time and Space: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Madeleine Deye | Sep 8, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed significant racial/ethnic inequalities in numerous aspects of American society. However, the massive disruption and upheaval to daily life caused by the pandemic can also present a unique moment in history...

Crisis Standards of Care and COVID-19: What Did We Learn? How Do We Ensure Equity? What Should We Do?

by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 30, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>       Introduction COVID-19 has fundamentally challenged the delivery of health care services across the world, forcing difficult choices on health...

Innovative Health Care Delivery: The Scientific and Regulatory Challenges in Designing mHealth Interventions

by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Scientists looking for innovative ways to deliver healthcare have long searched for mechanisms that can enable the right intervention to be delivered at the right time. Traditional delivery mechanisms have been limited both to the availability of a provider...

The Road to Readiness: Guiding Families of Children and Adolescents with Serious Illness Toward Meaningful Advance Care Planning Discussions

by Madeleine Deye | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Seriously ill children, adolescents, and young adults (C-AYA) live with a heavy symptom burden, uncertain or poor prognoses, and evolving expectations of their disease course that require health care professionals (HCPs) to facilitate and maintain meaningful...