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Health Affairs Briefing: Medical Liability And ER Use
The September 2010 issue of Health Affairs is devoted to two issues that arguably were insufficiently addressed by the Affordable Care Act: medical liability and patient safety; and the growing nonemergency use of the nation’s hospital emergency rooms...
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Tue, Aug 31 2010 9:27 AM
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Robert Butler’s Legacy
Editor’s note: Earlier this summer, on July 7, Robert Butler died of leukemia. Butler was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on aging and geriatrics...
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Mon, Aug 30 2010 12:01 PM
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Revisiting ‘Witness To Disaster’: First-Person Accounts Of Katrina’s Aftermath
Gulf Coast residents have only recently been able to mark, in Churchill’s words, “the end of the beginning” of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This week, these Americans and the entire nation also mark the fifth anniversary of another disaster: Hurricanes...
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Fri, Aug 27 2010 9:06 AM
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Berwick To Speak AT AHIP Conference
Don Berwick, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will address Implementing Health Care Reform: The Administration’s Priorities, at AHIP’s 2010 Medicare Conference, September 12-14, in Washington, D.C. Health Affairs...
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Fri, Aug 27 2010 7:05 AM
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Electronic Health Records In Hospitals: A Progress Report
While the share of U.S. hospitals that had adopted either basic or comprehensive electronic health records rose modestly between 2008 and 2009, from 8.7 percent to 11.9 percent, only 2 percent of this country’s hospitals reported having records that would...
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Thu, Aug 26 2010 6:51 AM
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Health Policy Brief: ‘Meaningful Use’ Of EHRs
The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examines a new federal effort to encourage the adoption of electronic health records systems and related health information technology (IT). These systems...
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Tue, Aug 24 2010 1:24 PM
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Health Affairs Briefing: Patient Safety, Medical Liability, And Emergency Dept. Use
The September 2010 issue of Health Affairs is devoted to two issues that arguably were insufficiently addressed by the Affordable Care Act: medical liability and patient safety; and the growing nonemergency use of the nation’s hospital emergency...
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Mon, Aug 23 2010 9:12 AM
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HA Blog Post By Blumenthal And Berwick Highlighted In Wonk Review
Joe Paduda hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at his blog, “Managed Care Matters.” Among the posts included is a Health Affairs Blog essay on the meaningful use of electronic health records by national health IT coordinator...
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Fri, Aug 20 2010 7:18 AM
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Conference: Comparative Effectiveness And Personalized Medicine
Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs editor-in-chief, will lead a discussion with speakers and audience in the opening session of ECRI Institute’s 17th annual conference, entitled “Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine: An Essential...
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Thu, Aug 19 2010 10:55 AM
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Health IT Event Video Available
Providers will have “no excuses” for not using electronic health records to improve care, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer said in summing up an August 5 National Press Club even on health IT. Video from the event, cosponsored...
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Wed, Aug 18 2010 10:24 AM
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Meeting Rural Health Needs In Poor Countries
The August issue of Health Affairs, titled “Lessons From Around The World,” looks at the health systems in the developed nations of Spain and Switzerland. It also looks at the challenges faced by poor nations through the lens of Ethiopia....
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Tue, Aug 17 2010 9:05 AM
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Narrative Matters: The Paralyzing Power Of Shame
Precisely two weeks after completing my medical internship, I proceeded to nearly kill a patient. July marked the start of my second year of residency at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, and it was my first time being fully in charge of a patient. So...
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Mon, Aug 16 2010 11:22 AM
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Health Affairs Interview: Understanding The Swiss Health System
Switzerland has been “rediscovered” as a source of inspiration for the American health care system – which is somewhat ironic, since, as former Swiss health minister Thomas Zeltner tells Tsung-Mei Cheng in an August 2010 Health Affairs interview, Switzerland’s...
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Fri, Aug 13 2010 6:13 AM
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Updated Health Policy Brief: Extra Federal Medicaid Funding
Yesterday, President Obama signed into law an extension of extra federal assistance to state Medicaid programs. The additional Medicaid funding was first approved as part of 2009 economic stimulus legislation and was due to expire at the end of the year...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 2:02 PM
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Nonelderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Access And Costs More Problematic
A new study released today by Health Affairs focuses on an often-neglected segment of Medicare enrollees: people ages 18–64 with permanent disabilities, a group that currently numbers eight million, or roughly one-sixth of the total number of Americans...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 8:37 AM
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