April 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

New Health Affairs: Hospital Errors Ten Times More Common Than Thought?

Despite more than a decade of national focus on patient safety, medical errors and other adverse events occur in one-third of hospital admissions—as much as ten times more than some previous estimates have indicated, according to authors of a new study...

Published Thu, Apr 07 2011 4:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety

Leighton Ku On Medicaid In Health Wonk Review

Over at the Incidental Economist, Don Taylor, Aaron Carroll, and Austin Frakt present the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Among the posts highlighted by this trio is Leighton Ku’s Health Affairs Blog post on Medicaid. As the Wonk Review...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Medicaid

Sebelius And Berwick Highlight HA Study At Patient Safety Initiative Launch

In announcing a major new patient safety and quality initiative, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today highlighted a study in the April 2011 issue of Health Affairs, titled “Still Crossing The Quality Chasm.” “Just...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 10:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The President’s Deficit Reduction Plan: Implications for Health Care

President Barack Obama took the very symbolic gesture of delivering his much anticipated speech on fiscal reform and deficit reduction from a podium at George Washington University, an institution of higher learning, including schools of medicine, public...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 7:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Payment, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid

Comparative Effectiveness Research: How Can It Change Practice?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is designed to increase the number of U. S. citizens with access to health insurance. Along with augmented access to health insurance and hopefully health care for millions of the currently uninsured...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 6:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Comparative Effectiveness

Request For Abstracts: Health Care Disparities

Health Affairs plans a cluster of papers on the continuing disparities in health care access and outcomes for minority and vulnerable populations in the United States for October, 2011. We hope to include papers that both illuminate past developments...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 12:49 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Disparities

ACOs: Improved Care Or Roadblocks To Innovation?

Some debates about health care policy represent black and white choices. But others are a more nuanced shade of grey: the new proposals could turn out well, or not so well, depending on how they are implemented. One such reform getting broad-based attention...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 11:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Chronic Care, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Innovation, Technology

Health Policy Brief: Improving Quality

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the ongoing need to improve the quality and safety of health care provided in the United States. Despite some progress toward goals set a decade ago following...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 1:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Quality, Disparities, Patient Safety

Overweight And Out Of Shape: ACO Regs Need A Major Makeover

Editor’s Note:This post is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rule implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. You can read earlier posts in the...

Published Thu, Apr 07 2011 3:07 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Payment, Spending, Medicare, Quality

Conference To Focus On States And Health IT

Health information technology can be a catalyst for the transformation of American health care, and the states have a major role to play when it comes to health IT, and indeed all aspects of health reform. That state role is the focus of the 2011 State...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2011 1:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Health IT, States

Mostashari And More Health IT In Health Affairs

One of the biggest challenges to realizing the full benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) has been moving their adoption beyond large integrated systems to safety net providers and physicians in small and solo practices. The new National Coordinator...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 2:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Health IT, Primary Care, Medicare, Medicaid

The Proposed Accountable Care Organization Antitrust Guidance: A First Look

Editor’s note: This post, by Joe Miller, is part of a series of Health Affairs Blog posts examining the proposed rules and guidelines implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program, issued March 31 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 12:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals, Health Law

Health Policy Brief: Unreasonable Rate Increases

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes a new requirement for reviewing “unreasonable” health insurance rate increases. A provision of the Affordable Care Act requires such reviews for individual...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 1:28 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Will Price Competition Lead To Quality Competition?

Editor’s Note: In addition to John Goodman (photo and bio above), this post was coauthored by Gerald Musgrave and Devon Herrick. In our third-party-payer health insurance system the price for care is typically set by entities external to the doctor-patient...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 6:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Competition, Quality, Hospitals

Health Affairs Briefing: Environmental Challenges for Health

Amid the ongoing debate over restructuring health care and implementing health reform, other factors that could affect health usually get far less attention. One, the recently enacted $1.6 billion cut in the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 8:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Environmental Health, Science and Health

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