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

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

First offered in 1925 and envisioned as a “reverse Rhodes Scholarship,” the Harkness Fellowships are the Commonwealth Fund’s longest-running program. Nearly 100 years later, they remain a flagship of ...

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

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 ...

The United States spends more on health care than any other country, yet Americans continue to experience worse health outcomes than their international peers. What lessons can the U.S. learn from ...

As states confront their most challenging budgets in decades alongside new responsibilities to implement national health reform, many are looking at opportunities to improve long-term care as a way to ...

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 ...

Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...