NEJM Catalyst

Using time-driven activity-based costing analysis on two health systems in India with notably different care delivery and payment models, researchers found that the cost for certain surgical procedures in one system can be lower, with comparable clinical mortality outcomes among matched pediatric cardiac surgeries: https://nej.md/4uHDBsO

The National Pediatric Readiness Quality Initiative is a free and secure quality improvement platform that supports clinician-led QI initiatives by providing vetted quality measures, standardized data collection, performance visualization, and benchmarking: https://nej.md/4epIznD

Among Health Alliance Plan members with active, high-cost musculoskeletal conditions who agreed to opt in to a virtual care initiative, 6-month postindex claims data showed that MSK-related per-member per-month costs associated with the virtual integrated practice unit cohort declined by more than half: https://nej.md/4a54Wxt

The procedure-only transfer pathway is a novel workflow through which patients hospitalized at rural or community hospitals can receive necessary tertiary care procedures at an urban, academic hospital without the need for full interhospital transfer: https://nej.md/3Ql7pgG

A team at Included Health created, implemented, and evaluated an artificial intelligence digital assistant that offered generalized health guidance while triggering safety guardrails to route higher-risk patients to human support: https://nej.md/3QI44Za