April 2010 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Don Berwick On Patient-Centeredness And More

In an essay in Health Affairs last year, Don Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, surveys the debate in the health policy community over how the principle of “patient-centeredness” should...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 11:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Physicians, Quality

The Health Wonk Review

Healthcare Economist hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Jason Shafrin ably presents the latest in quality health policy blogging, using a theme that we here in the Washington D.C. area have become sadly unfamiliar with: the NBA playoffs...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 3:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

Computerized Physician Order Entry: Accomplishments And Remaining Challenges

A few weeks ago I toured a hospital that had recently adopted computerized physician order entry (CPOE). We visited a patient room on the Med-Surge floor, where a nurse explained what happens in an emergency. Before they adopted CPOE, nurses would run...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 8:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Health IT, Quality, Hospitals, Technology, Patient Safety, Effectiveness

Don Berwick’s Vision: The Triple Aim

Yesterday, President Obama made it official: He nominated Don Berwick, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has been without an administrator since October 2006. Berwick,...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 1:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Quality

An International Trend Toward Self-Directed Care

Critics of consumer-directed health care often argue that patients are not knowledgeable enough and the market is not transparent enough for consumerism to work in health care. But a study by The Commonwealth Fund says there is an international trend...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 7:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Chronic Care, States, Medicaid

Health Affairs Explores Health IT As HHS Awards Grants

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced yesterday that more than $267 million has been awarded to 28 non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology (IT) Regional Extension Centers, desigined...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2010 3:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Hospitals

Sebelius To Keynote Health Affairs Briefing

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will keynote the Health Affairs May 4 briefing “Reinventing Primary Care.” The briefing will take place from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. It will highlight...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 2:17 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Primary Care

April Health Affairs To Focus On Health IT

Adoption and implementation of health information technology (IT) will be key to the success of newly enacted national health reform. Last year, Congress approved health IT subsidies to hospital and medical practices expected to total as much as $29 billion...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2010 9:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Health IT

Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up

Today is of course tax day, but over at the HealthBlawg, David Harlow marks the day in happier fashion, offering the best in health policy blogging in the latest Health Wonk Review. In an entertaining edition titled “Block That Metaphor,”...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 2:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Blog

Medicare Part D drug pricing

Reducing Medicare Part D drug prices requires careful tools, not simply the power to negotiate Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 11:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Blog, Policy, Health Care Costs, Uncategorized, Medicare, Pharma, Cost, Health Law, part d, Biotech, drug, pricing

Health Affairs Briefing: Reinventing Primary Care

The May 2010 issue of Health Affairs examines what it will take to reinvent primary care in the United States. Operational, payment, regulatory, legal, and educational reforms will be necessary to improve care and achieve savings —and to prepare for the...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 1:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Primary Care

Health Affairs Blog Roundtable Transcript: CMS And Health Reform

Editor’s Note: Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 3:02 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Innovation

Health Affairs Launches GrantWatch Blog

Since 1987, Health Affairs has published news and insights into health care and health policy philanthropy in its ongoing journal section called GrantWatch. Now GrantWatch has moved to the blogosphere. The new GrantWatch Blog features news and updates...

Published Thu, Apr 01 2010 12:52 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

New Health Affairs Issue: Health IT A Year After The Stimulus

Although President Obama has only just signed national health reform into law, the “first wave” of health care reform started a year earlier when substantial federal investments in health information technology (IT) were approved as part of the economic...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 8:13 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health IT, Technology

CMS And Health Reform: A Health Affairs Blog Roundtable

Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting duties involving Medicare, Medicaid...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 12:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health IT, Medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Innovation

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