Clinical Editor
Namita Seth Mohta, MD
NEJM Catalyst
Namita Seth Mohta, MD, is a physician executive with expertise in health care delivery transformation. She has been part of the founding Population Health and ACO leadership teams at both Partners Health Care and the New England Quality Care Alliance affiliated with Tufts Medical Center, both in Boston. Her responsibilities have included designing and implementing ACO strategies for Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial populations, with a focus on scaling tailored clinical interventions, integrating analytics and measurement, and leading change management and team-based care with providers. Dr. Mohta also has industry experience as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. She is currently the Clinical Editor for NEJM Catalyst, a publication launched by The New England Journal of Medicine that accelerates innovation in health care. Dr. Mohta practices internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is faculty at The Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences and Harvard Medical School. She completed her Internal Medicine and Primary Care residency training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Mohta is a graduate of Yale College and Yale School of Medicine.

Leadership
Leadership Survey: Immunization Against Burnout
Insights Report by Stephen Swensen, Steven Strongwater & Namita Seth Mohta
Clinician burnout is far from being eliminated at health care organizations, but leaders, frontline physicians, and nurses are joining forces to get to the roots of the crisis.

Leadership
Leadership Survey: Why Big Gaps in Organizational Alignment Matter
Insights Report by Stephen Swensen & Namita Seth Mohta
An NEJM Catalyst Insights Council survey finds that clinicians and leaders do not see eye-to-eye on many aspects of health care delivery.

Leadership
Physician Coaching Models: Solutions and Impediments
Interview by Rana L. Awdish, Dale M. Glenn, Ghazala Sharieff, Thomas Howell, Jr. & Namita Seth Mohta
A group of care experience leaders from across the United States discuss innovative physician coaching models at their respective organizations.

New Marketplace
New Marketplace Survey: Payers and Providers Remain Far Apart
Insights Report by Leemore Dafny & Namita Seth Mohta
Health care stakeholders are not aligned in important goals and in large part are not working together to achieve value-based care, according to the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council. They are waiting on government regulators to change the payment model — including, possibly, single-payer health care.

Care Redesign
Care Redesign Survey: It’s Time to Treat Physical and Mental Health with Equal Intent
Insights Report by Amy Compton-Phillips & Namita Seth Mohta
By neglecting mental and behavioral health, our society has made it virtually impossible to succeed in holistic health, and thus to improve health outcomes.

Patient Engagement
Patient Engagement Survey: Social Networks to Improve Patient Health
Insights Report by Kevin G. Volpp & Namita Seth Mohta
Social networks — both face-to-face and virtual — have been shown to positively impact behaviors such as weight loss and smoking cessation. Is the health care industry ready to more widely leverage this mechanism for increasing healthy behaviors among patients?

Patient Engagement
What’s the Data Behind Mutual Peer Support?
Clip by Namita Seth Mohta, Michele Heisler & David A. Asch
The evidence for improved clinical outcomes, lower costs, and reduced hospital and ED utilization resulting from mutual peer support health interventions.

New Marketplace
New Marketplace Survey: What’s Next for Payment Reform?
Insights Report by Leemore Dafny & Namita Seth Mohta
As health care reform struggles to gain traction legislatively, health care professionals report that payment reforms continue to move forward at a moderate pace, and indeed are essential to achieving the Triple Aim.

Leadership
Professional Fulfillment: Where We Want to Be
Interview by Jessica C. Dudley & Namita Seth Mohta
How the CMO of Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization combats burnout at her institution and empowers physicians with leadership skills.

Leadership
Leadership Survey: Anticipating the Trump Administration’s Impact on Health Care
Insights Report by Stephen Swensen, Namita Seth Mohta & Edward Prewitt
NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members predict no clear winners, only losers. Some of their concerns have already been borne out.