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New Health Policy Brief: The FDA’s Menu-Labeling Rule

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) looks at a vigorously debated rule of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), taking effect on December 1, 2015, requiring most food establishments in the United States...

Published Mon, Jun 29 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, RWJF, FDA, Health Policy Brief, Affordable Care Act, Menu-Labeling, nutritional information

Implementing Health Reform: Contraceptive Coverage Religious Accommodations, House v. Burwell, And More

The Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell that the federally facilitated exchanges can grant premium tax credits was clearly the big Affordable Care Act implementation news for the end of June, if not for the year. But it was not the only ACA-related...

Published Tue, Jun 30 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Prevention, Quality, Disparities, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, ACA litigation, cost-sharing reduction subsidies, religious accommodation, contraceptive mandate, legislative standing, House v. Burwell

Improving Patient Safety Incident Reporting? There’s An App For That

Patient safety incident reporting is a valuable source of information for providers, patients, and policymakers. It promotes accountability, learning, and improvement of patient safety culture. However, in high-income countries, incident reporting systems...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 6:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health IT, Global Health, Technology, Patient Safety, Innovations in Care Delivery, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, World Innovation Summit for Health, British National Health Service, Centre for Health Policy, CareReport, NHS

King v. Burwell And The Importance Of State Politics

The Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell brings an important chapter of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) implementation to a close. The fight about health reform is not over, with Republican presidential candidates promising to repeal the law while...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 1:49 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Public Health, States, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, ACA, King v. Burwell, Heritage Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council, New Mexico, Mississippi

Seven Big Ideas From Spotlight Health

A few of us from Health Affairs were lucky enough to attend Spotlight Health at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Besides seeing Elmo , what were some of the most interesting takeaways? Here are just seven of the ideas that surprised us, impressed...

Published Thu, Jul 02 2015 11:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, SDH, NIH, infectious disease, Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Cancer, Hurricane Katrina, addiction, Precision Medicine

Unauthorized Immigrants Account For Only 1.4 Percent Of US Medical Spending

Unauthorized immigrants have lower health care expenditures compared to legal residents, naturalized citizens, and US natives, Jim Stimpson and colleagues from the University of Nebraska Medical Center report in a Health Affairs Web First study released...

Published Wed, Jun 12 2013 1:36 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Prevention, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Spending, Coverage, Disparities

Collaborative Filtering: An Interim Approach To Identifying Clinical Doppelgängers

“The real challenge of human biology, beyond the task of finding out how genes orchestrate the construction and maintenance of the miraculous mechanism of our bodies, will lie ahead as we seek to explain how our minds have come to organize thoughts sufficiently...

Published Mon, Jun 17 2013 10:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Health IT, Pharma, Innovation, Technology, Effectiveness, Science and Health, Research

Latest Edition Of Health Wonk Review Is Up

Over at his blog “Wright On Health,” Brad Wright presents some of the best in recent health policy blogging in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Copyright © 2010 Health Affairs Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 7:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

Implementing Health Reform: Establishment Clause ACA Challenge Rejected

On August 14, 2015, yet another federal appellate court tossed yet another Affordable Care Act challenge . Jeffrey Cutler sued the Department of Health and Human Services. He claimed that the religious conscience exception to the individual mandate violated...

Published Sun, Aug 16 2015 10:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

Using Innovative Community Partnerships To Address The Social Determinants of Health: Report From The Colorado Health Symposium

At the recent Colorado Health Symposium hosted by the Colorado Health Foundation, the five funders ( the Advisory Board Company , the Colorado Health Foundation , the de Beaumont Foundation , the Kresge Foundation , and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

Published Wed, Aug 19 2015 12:39 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Health Care Costs, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Social Determinants of Health, Population Health, Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW

A New Framework For Health Care Management

Today’s health care management is in need of an overhaul. The classic top down model, which has existed for more than 50 years, does not empower frontline workers to identify and solve problems. It must be replaced by a model for management that supports...

Published Fri, Aug 21 2015 6:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, Lean, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Kaizen Improvement, Plan-Do-Study-Act, The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value

Health Affairs Briefing: The Growing Burden Of Noncommunicable Diseases

While growing wealth has reduced the burden of infectious diseases both globally and here at home, it has increased the risk factors for some chronic diseases. Heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes, mental illness, and other noncommunicable...

Published Mon, Aug 24 2015 10:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Mental Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Diabetes, Cancer, Community Health, Health Affairs events, NCDs, chronic diseases, heart disease, economics

Health Affairs Is Seeking Policy Narratives About Vaccines

The Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is seeking personal essay submissions that touch on the topic of vaccines. The journal’s February 2016 issue on vaccines will examine progress from 2010-2015 in accelerating vaccine introduction and the...

Published Tue, Aug 25 2015 2:24 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Coverage, Children, Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, vaccines, Health Policy, vaccination

The Future Of Premium Assistance Through Waivers Under The Affordable Care Act

Premium assistance is the use of public funding for the purchase of commercial health insurance. Historically, premium assistance has mostly enabled a small number of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients to enroll in health...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2015 12:38 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Essential Health Benefits, qualified health plans, State Innovation Waiver, Health Insurance Premium Payment Program

Health Policy Brief: Aligning FDA And CMS Review

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) touches on recent initiatives to close gaps between the medical technology evaluation processes of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare...

Published Fri, Aug 28 2015 10:06 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Drugs and Medical Technology, RWJF, FDA, CMS, Health Policy Brief, coverage with evidence development, medical devices, parallel review

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