Bridging the gap between academic research and its practical application is essential for ensuring reliable and safe healthcare for all. NEJM Catalyst supports healthcare leaders and clinicians in their effort to integrate academic insights into practice.
In the rapidly evolving world of healthcare, the distance between groundbreaking academic research and its practical application in healthcare delivery (in the clinical setting) can often seem insurmountable. Bridging this gap is essential for ensuring high-quality, safe, reliable, and affordable healthcare for all. NEJM Catalyst is taking on this formidable challenge, supporting healthcare professionals as they strive to integrate academic insights into everyday practice.
Advancing healthcare delivery to improve care
A key challenge of modern healthcare is making scientific breakthroughs accessible and practical for healthcare providers and patients. Advancements in healthcare delivery must keep pace with medical science to ensure that innovations translate into reliable, safe, and affordable care for every patient. Yet, there are numerous issues related to access, coordination, and affordability. And burnout among healthcare professionals is also a key factor. This underscores the need for healthcare professionals and institutions to focus not just on understanding and documenting scientific advances, but on tackling problems with the systems and processes that deliver these advances to the people who need them most.
Sharing real-world innovations
Since 2015, NEJM Catalyst has been at the forefront of improving healthcare delivery by bridging the gap between medical advancements and their practical implementation in healthcare systems worldwide. The convenient digital platform offers healthcare professionals easy access to original research articles, in-depth articles, case studies, live-streamed events, and insights reports that not only highlight theoretical advancements — they focus on practical solutions that have been tested in real-world settings.
Content with actionable impact
The content within NEJM Catalyst is designed to offer actionable insights gleaned from new ideas, theoretical developments, frameworks, and experiments addressing the realities of today’s healthcare systems and practices. Recent examples tackled the following issues and exemplify how NEJM Catalyst translates complex problems into manageable and replicable solutions:
Reducing clinician workload
Innovative approaches at Atreus Health Care reduced clinician workload designed to quantify “inbox fatigue” and develop strategies to manage it, addressing burnout in primary care — a growing concern in the healthcare industry.
Value-based healthcare models
An initiative to redefine value-based healthcare models in the Netherlands introduced four archetypes for integrated practice units aimed at improving patient experiences and outcomes.
Tried-and-tested case studies and practical insights
Case studies detail specific challenges, solutions, and outcomes, including:
AI in clinical notes
One recent study focuses on how NYU Langone Medical Center's use of AI (specifically Chat GPT-4) significantly enhanced note quality, reduced length of stay, and lowered mortality rates. The success was attributed to a well-structured governance committee overseeing the implementation.
Mental and behavioral healthcare
Insights from the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council reveal that workforce shortages and reimbursement issues are major barriers to effective mental and behavioral healthcare.
Meaningful discussion and rigor
NEJM Catalyst incorporates rigorous methodologies to ensure that study outcomes are linked to the interventions themselves, rather than external factors (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) — making it a trusted resource for practical innovations. Instead of prioritizing controlled trials, NEJM Catalyst focuses on real-world studies and experiments that improve care delivery more broadly — crucial for timely dissemination of insights that drive significant improvements.
Address complex healthcare challenges
Whether you’re a clinician, clinical leader, healthcare executive, or researcher, NEJM Catalyst showcases successful innovations that can inspire others and drive meaningful change. Practical frameworks and strategies can be adopted and adapted to unique contexts — demystifying complex healthcare challenges and providing a roadmap for improvement.
In an era of information overload, NEJM Catalyst stands out. It doesn’t just present data; it provides context, analysis, and actionable recommendations — and serves as a beacon of reliability, offering insights that are both evidence-based and deeply practical.
Drive meaningful, sustainable improvements in healthcare delivery
The bridge between academic research and practical healthcare innovation is more than a path — it’s a lifeline for advancing healthcare delivery. By providing a platform that merges rigorous academic research with real-world applications, NEJM Catalyst empowers healthcare professionals to enhance quality of care ensuring that innovations benefit those who need them most: patients.
Request your free trial today!
Check out how NEJM Catalyst combines innovative ideas and practical applications to address complex challenges and advance healthcare delivery. Contact your Ovid® Representative to learn more or email sales.
