February 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Defining Essential Benefits: Congress’ Once And Future Role

A non-governmental advisory body has begun to define one of the most important elements of last year’s health reform law. A committee of the Institute of Medicine will develop recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services on how to define...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 10:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Spending

Medical Errors Podcast Added to Narrative Matters iTunes U Collection

Health Affairs today added a podcast about medical errors to its free collection of podcasts of Narrative Matters essays on iTunes U. The essay was written by Michael Rowe, an associate clinical professor in the Yale School of Medicine. Titled “The...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 11:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Personal Experience, Patient Safety, Aging

Foundation Blogs Round-up: Health Reform, Disparities, Global Health, Obesity, and More

As my work week draws to a close, I have put together a quick listing of some foundation-related posts that I think you might want to check out. If your foundation has a blog about health care and it is not listed on GrantWatch Blog’s Blogroll, let me...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 4:56 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Access, Global Health, Disparities, Obesity, GrantWatch, Health Professions, Environmental Health, Health Care for the Elderly, Substance Abuse Prevention, Health Care Delivery

Analyzing Judge Vinson’s Opinion Invalidating The ACA

Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson’s 78-page opinion in State of Florida v. United States Department of Health and Human Services is a remarkable piece of work. This decision, concluding a case brought by twenty-six state governors or attorneys...

Published Tue, Feb 01 2011 12:57 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, States, Coverage, Health Law

Gender Gap In Starting Physician Salaries Is Growing

Newly trained physicians who are women are being paid significantly lower salaries than their male counterparts, according to a new study published in the February issue of Health Affairs, released today. The authors identify an unexplained gender gap...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 5:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Workforce

Virginia Mason’s Clinical Transformation: Hard Work, Big Payoff

In the ten months since the passage of health reform, health care managers, particularly those in hospitals and health systems, have struggled to make sense of an onslaught of change in Medicare policy. The response has been depressing: an accelerating...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 5:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Primary Care, Quality, Hospitals, Innovation

The Case For Meaningful Use: Strengthened, Not Weakened

Last week the Archives of Internal Medicine published a study that calls into question the value of electronic health records, or EHRs, clinical decision support, and the federal “meaningful use” program, which provides financial incentives...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 8:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Quality

Health Care In The 2012 Budget: Looking Forward And Backward

Today, President Barack Obama released his Annual Budget, which emphasizes the Administration’s vision for moving forward by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building out of a recession. The President proposes a freeze on non-security discretionary...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 2:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Chronic Care, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Pharma

Eradicating Polio: Challenges And Questions

Editor’s Note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other global health leaders recently launched a new effort to eradicate polio. Below, Judith Kaufmann comments on the potential rewards and the risks of this new initiative, and in another...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Health Care Costs, Pharma, Global Health

Mismanaged Hospital Operations: A Neglected Threat To Reform

If one performs a “Google” search with the key words: “health reform” and “US OR America” for 2007, one will find about 160,000 links. If one does the same for 2010, there will be over 2.5 million links. Quite a difference! This is not surprising, since...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 9:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Spending, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety

Health Policy Brief: Congress And The Affordable Care Act

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the current congressional fight over derailing implementation of the Affordable Care Act. On January 19, 2011, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 9:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics

… And Then The Dessert Arrived: Global Health Dichotomies

The story was tragic. A Tuberculosis patient from India who died because the system which was expected to provide for his treatment failed to deliver… and then the dessert arrived. The setting? The official dinner of the First Global Symposium on Health...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 6:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Spending, Coverage, Access, Global Health

Comparative Effectiveness Research And Medicare: Kathy Buto’s View

Editor’s Note: In the October issue of Health Affairs, Steven Pearson and Peter Bach proposed a new Medicare payment model incorporating comparative effectiveness research. Under the model, services offering greater health benefits than an existing alternative...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 11:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Comparative Effectiveness, Technology

Ronald Williams NHPC Presentation Available Via Webcast

The success of health reform depends on the efforts of both the public and private sectors. At the 2011 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), to be held February 7 and 8 in Washington D.C., confirmed speakers include leading players in both of those...

Published Sun, Feb 06 2011 12:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance

The Individual Mandate: Neither Essential Nor Enough

All eyes are focused on the many state challenges to health reform. Florida’s recent federal court decision held the entire health reform law unconstitutional, based on the unconstitutionality of the mandate requiring all U.S. citizens to maintain a minimum...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 11:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Access, Children

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