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New Health Affairs: Acute But Nonemergency Patients Going To ERs

The busy daytime schedules of office-based primary care doctors, coupled with limited access to primary care services, have led a large number of Americans to seek care in hospital emergency departments, even when the problem may not be an emergency....

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 9:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Medicaid, Cost, Innovation, Mental Health

In New Health Affairs Issue: Medical Liablity Costs And ER Use

Medical malpractice and reform proposals have been a longstanding battleground of U.S. health policy. On the one hand, studies have shown that health care is rife with errors and avoidable injury to patients. On the other, doctors and hospitals fear frivolous...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 5:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Malpractice Liability Reform, Physicians, Hospitals, Patient Safety

Which Children Are Uninsured And How Can We Insure Them?

At the beginning of this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an initiative called Connecting Kids to Coverage, designed to identify (and subsequently enroll) the nearly five million uninsured children thought to be eligible...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 5:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Coverage, Children

Firms Shifting Burden To Workers For Family Coverage

Workers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year toward the cost of family health coverage — an increase of 14 percent, or $482, above what they paid last year, according to the benchmark 2010 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 8:34 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

New Ideas In Medicaid Financing

The Medicaid program is facing major new challenges. The new health care law puts both significant new responsibilities and financial burdens on the program. At the same time, Medicaid, as one of the three major federal entitlement programs, is a top...

Published Wed, Sep 01 2010 5:56 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 9:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Malpractice Liability Reform, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Patient Safety

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...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 12:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Chronic Care, Workforce, Personal Experience, End-of-Life Care, Aging

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...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 9:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Personal Experience

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...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 7:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid

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...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 6:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Hospitals

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...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 1:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Health IT, Hospitals

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...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 9:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Malpractice Liability Reform, Hospitals, Patient Safety

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...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 7:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Health IT

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...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2010 10:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness

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...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 10:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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