April 2015 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Teaching Health Centers: Targeted Expansion For Immediate GME Reform

Since the first Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report recommending reform of graduate medical education (GME) in 1989, its funding and governance have been debated extensively. The long awaited IOM GME Report issued July 2014 recommends major reforms, producing...

Published Fri, Apr 24 2015 10:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Policy Lab, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Health Professionals

From the Grantmakers in Health Annual Meeting: Patrick Kennedy on Behavioral Health

In March 2015, I covered the annual meeting of Grantmakers In Health (GIH) , an organization of foundations and corporate-giving programs that fund in health. The meeting, held in Austin, Texas, attracted foundation staffers from all over the country...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2015 8:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Effectiveness, Mental Health, Insurance and Coverage

As Vaccination Rates Dip, Parents Walk A Tightrope Between Doubt And Risk

The recent re-emergence of measles in the United States following a 15-year period of occasional cases provides a compelling example of an unresolved societal tension in public health: that between the value of autonomous decision-making and the need...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2015 7:09 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Population Health, Featured, vaccines, autism, risk awareness

Health Cooperation In The New U.S.-Cuban Relationship

Four months after the surprise announcement of his determination to normalize relations with Cuba, President Barack Obama is rapidly translating that wish into reality, with the cooperation of Cuban counterparts and widespread support among Americans...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2015 9:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Featured, Cuba, Raúl Castro, Bill Frist, U.S.-Cuban relationship, cuban health care

Recent Judicial Rulemaking Leaves Life Science Patents Hanging In The Balance

Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health...

Published Thu, Apr 02 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Law, Research

Implementing Health Reform: Navigator Grants, Another ACA Challenge Rejected, And More

On April 15, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service issued its funding opportunity announcement for 2016 navigator grants. (search CFDA 93.332 here ). The 2016 grant announcement looks much like last year's, with one major change: grant...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2015 9:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Law, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Navigators

From The WHO: Preventing The Next Ebola

As the senior leaders of the World Health Organization, we are taking action to prevent another emergency on the scale of the current Ebola outbreak from happening again. To do this, we need partners to join us in strengthening crucial components of country...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2015 6:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Featured, Drugs and Medical Technology, Ebola, World Health Organization

New Narrative Matters: When The Medical Community Forgets The Family

In the Health Affairs ' April Narrative Matters essay, when a patient's health suddenly deteriorates, a medical student delivers difficult news to a family whom no one has time for. Pierre Elias' article is freely available to all readers...

Published Thu, Apr 09 2015 8:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs

Integrating Behavioral Medicine Into Primary Care GME: A Necessary Paradigm For 21st Century Ambulatory Practice

Limited access to child and adolescent, adult, and geriatric psychiatry, as well as other mental health providers, has a large impact on the capacity of our health care system to address mental health needs, particularly in underserved urban and rural...

Published Fri, Apr 24 2015 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Health Policy Lab, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals

Interview: Dr. Gail Christopher, Vice President For Policy And Senior Advisor For The W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Shortly before Dr. Gail Christopher, vice president for policy and senior advisor for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, received the Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy from Grantmakers in Health, I sat down with her to talk. Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Children, Health Philanthropy, Once In A Weil, Featured, Kellogg, Gail Christopher

Workplace Wellness Programs: Federal Agencies Weigh In

Workplace wellness programs are very controversial. Employers believe that they improve employee health, reduce absenteeism, and cut the cost of employee health benefit programs. They are encouraged in this belief by wellness program vendors, who aggressively...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2015 8:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, privacy, workplace wellness programs, Americans With Disabilities Act

Implementing Value-Based Payment Reform: Learning From The Field Of Practice

For the last four years, our team at the University of Washington (UW) has been evaluating seven value-based payment reform programs in six states for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). We found that although the foundational work of value-based...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2015 4:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Innovations in Care Delivery

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Population Health?

The term population health is much more widely used now than in 2003 when Greg Stoddart and I proposed the following definition: “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.” The term is...

Published Mon, Apr 06 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Research

The Payment Reform Landscape: Impact On Consumers

My organization, Catalyst for Payment Reform, empowers employers and other health care purchasers to drive change in our health care system so that employees and other consumers receive better and more affordable health care. We do this by organizing...

Published Wed, Apr 15 2015 11:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Quality, Featured, Payment Policy, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Efforts to Reverse Childhood Obesity

This blog post is excerpted from chapter 5 of To Improve Health and Healthcare: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology, vol. XVI . Recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced a commitment of $500 million to help children maintain...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2015 4:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: GrantWatch

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