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Project ECHO: Force Multiplier For Community Health Centers
Even with the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans struggle to access health care when they need it. A huge part of the problem is a lack of both primary care and specialty providers in rural and other underserved communities. Without local providers...
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AHRQ And The Essential ‘Both/And’ Of Federal Investments In Medical Discoveries
Congressional appropriators face difficult decisions in a time of imposed national budget constraint. However, the move by the House Appropriations Committee to terminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the wrong way to address...
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Project ECHO GEMH: Disruptive Technology For Geriatric Mental Health
New York State is a leader on many health fronts, whether it be antismoking, obesity reduction , or insurance coverage. But our state is also a leader in another area: we are among the states with the greatest shortages in physician supply. According...
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Notes From The 4th Forum On Health Policy And Management In Berlin, Germany
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4 th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation , held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For updates on the Forum’s results...
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Helping Doctors Choose Wisely: Three Innovative Principles For Health Care Organizations
Achieving higher value, cost-conscious care that eliminates waste and optimizes quality is a crucial priority. Recent professional and policy initiatives aiming to spur individual physicians to achieve that priority include the American Board of Internal...
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Refocusing Philanthropy after ACA Implementation
For the past several years, many of us in health philanthropy have seen the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a key opportunity for attention and investment. At the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) , we focused resources first...
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Closing The Rural Health Connectivity Gap: How Broadband Funding Can Better Improve Care
Broadband access is not usually highlighted in policy prescriptions for improving outcomes and lowering costs of health care. But it is a prerequisite for a range of technologies that can provide more cost-effective and higher-quality care, such as video...
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Paying For The ‘Doc Fix’
For years now it has become apparent that the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system is not sustainable. However, fixing the SGR will require increases in budgeted costs, and so one of the major barriers to replacing the SGR is figuring out how to pay for...
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The Final Stage Of Meaningful Use Rules: Will EHRs Finally Pay Off?
Six years ago, President Obama signed into law the HITECH Act , which spelled out a path to a nationwide health information technology infrastructure. The goal was simple: every doctor, nurse, and hospital in America should use electronic health records...
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Good And Bad News For Diabetes Prevention In The Community
The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes among high-risk populations (people already obese or inactive or diagnosed as having prediabetes)...
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To Advance Medical Innovation, Put International Best Practices In A National Context
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4 th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation , held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For updates on the Forum’s results...
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Exhibit of the Month: Improving Pharmaceutical Innovation
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing “ Exhibit of the Month ” series. Readers who’d like to highlight other noteworthy exhibits from the same issue are encouraged to make their pitch in the comments section below. This month’s exhibits, published...
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Building A Framework To Assess The Impact Of Change
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4 th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation , held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For updates on the Forum’s results...
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Top 5 Health Care Trends to Watch in 2015
With a new Congress, health care is once again an issue of tremendous scrutiny and debate. Many of the federal policy debates in 2015 will be largely symbolic, resulting in little more than tweaks to existing law. However, health care policy is not just...
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The Need For Publicly Funded Trials To Get Unbiased Comparative Effectiveness Data
Comparative effectiveness research was one of the hotly debated components of the Affordable Care Act. The pharmaceutical industry is marketing driven, with pharmaceutical companies spending more on marketing than they do on research and development....
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