William A. Haseltine, Contributor

The American tech giant Cisco Systems recently partnered with the Southeast Asia office of ACCESS Health International to explore how policymakers can use digital technologies to deliver on their promise to provide access to quality care for all.

The aging population and changing demographics in the US mean that we are becoming a nation with substantially more older people in need of care and substantially fewer younger people to provide it.

Changing the culture of an organization — especially a healthcare organization — is no easy task but it can be done as NYU Langone Health has shown.

In 2007, NYU Langone Health was ranked 60 out of 90 academic medical center hospitals in quality and safety. Today, they are regularly ranked either number one or number two. This article gives an inside look at what NYU Langone did to succeed.

So much of the healthcare debate in the US today centers on how we pay for healthcare services, not on what really matters to most people: What do we get for what we pay? Does the treatment we receive actually provide the remedy to what ails us? Can we…

The problem of access to healthcare is complex, but there is one key that could unlock a host of solutions to our current healthcare crisis and lead to a true transformation of the healthcare system here in the United States.

In 2005, EMRI launched an emergency service that now serves a population of more than 700 million. Each day, the system receives 150,000 calls and responds to almost 25,000 emergencies. The service costs EMRI less than one percent of what an emergency …

The world population is aging more quickly than ever before and governments are facing unexpected challenges as they try to meet the social and healthcare needs of this unique population.

Healthcare systems need to rethink how they care for older adults. Enter the Age-Friendly Health System, a movement to recruit and support entire healthcare systems to focus on what is most important to quality healthcare for older people.