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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- December 02, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
The United States will spend $2.4 trillion on health care this year, yet there is no system in place to efficiently evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and safety of the care that is delivered. On December 2, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings will host a forum to outline a vision and practical next steps toward a health information infrastructure that could quickly and efficiently generate evidence for health care decision-makers.
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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:19:19 GMT
The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As the nation and the world continue to grapple with H1N1, and while delivery of the vaccine in the United States faces delays, school closures are one policy tool under consideration to slow spread of the pandemic. Ross Hammond, co-author of a recent report that quantified the economic effects of school closures, and Fred Barbash, Politico senior editor, took questions in a live web chat about the implications and potential costs of this approach.
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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In early September, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform released a report, Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Spending Growth, to help inform the current debate. A new brief provides a high-level review of the legislation introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, including a side-by-side summary of key provisions of the Bending the Curve report and those in the Baucus proposal.
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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:30:00 GMT
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- September 14, 2009, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
The 2009 Conference on Clinical Cancer Research, hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Friends of Cancer Research, brought together distinguished members of the cancer community for in-depth discussions of critical issues at the intersection of clinical research and policy. The event featured presentations by National Cancer Institute Director John Neiderhuber and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, as well as panel discussions focusing on optimal data collection for clinical trials, development and approval of targeted therapies, and development of combination therapies targeting multiple pathways.
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Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark McClellan, a senior fellow and the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, talks with Kai Ryssdal about rumors that President Barack Obama may drop the public option in a new health care bill and what's likely to happen next.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Reducing the growth of health care spending must be a top priority for health care reform. With this goal in mind, a group of leading health policy experts, including Engelberg Center Director Mark McClellan, has released a set of concrete, feasible steps that show promise for both slowing spending growth and improving quality and value in health care.
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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As Congress and the Administration consider legislation to reduce the number of Americans without insurance coverage, they must simultaneously address shortfalls in the quality and efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. Engelberg Center experts, with support from Avalere Health, discuss evidence on a range of payment and delivery system reforms designed to improve health care in a new report.
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As the discussion on health care reform continues across America, Mark McClellan and other health policy experts have looked for solutions from communities that are already redesigning health care for the better. The experts offer a number of steps that can help our nation change how health care is delivered so that it is both less expensive and more effective.
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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT
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- June 09, 2009, 8:30 AM to 12:45 PM
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 invested $1.1 billion in federal initiatives to begin the important and necessary work of comparative effectiveness research (CER), a key building block in health care reform. A forum hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and The Hamilton Project addressed many of the key questions surrounding CER, and featured remarks from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A forum hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and The Hamilton Project addressed many of the key questions surrounding comparative effectiveness research (CER). Discussion papers released at the event focus on how research questions should be prioritized, what methods and data infrastructure are needed for CER, and how CER findings can be used to improve clinical and health policy decisions.
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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT
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- June 02, 2009, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
On June 2, Christina Romer, chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, joined Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform director Mark McClellan, Harvard economist David Cutler and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin to discuss the economic case for health care reform and its potential impact on the U.S. economy.
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Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT
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- May 20, 2009, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
As the Obama administration looks to reform health care, encouraging signs point to the potential for health IT to play a significant role in changing the current system. At a forum on May 20, hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings in cooperation with the Markle Foundation, experts addressed strategies for coordinating recently enacted health IT incentives with other promising approaches to improving health care delivery.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:00 GMT
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- April 27, 2009, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Academic medical centers (AMCs) have long been integral to developing innovative treatments and assuring access to care for Americans who need the most help. The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings is launching a two-year project examining challenges facing the nation’s AMCs, particularly those in urban areas that serve a disproportionate share of lower-income and uninsured patients.
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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Despite unprecedented biomedical achievements, Americans are sicker than they should be and are dying far too young. From the standpoint of our economy, our future and our families, Mark McClellan and Alice Rivlin discuss why the need to improve Americans' health is greater than ever.
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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Reimbursement for medication therapy management services under Medicare Part D has created an historic opportunity for the pharmacy profession to step further into the role of managing outcomes as well as delivering medications to patients. Larry Kocot and Joshua Benner discuss how pharmacy leaders can be at the forefront of change by following five specific steps.
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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To succeed, health care reform must slow spending growth while improving quality. Mark McClellan and leading health care experts propose a new approach to help achieve more integrated and efficient care by fostering local organizational accountability for quality and costs through performance measurement and "shared savings" payment reform.
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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Although fundamental reform of U.S. health care is clearly necessary, there are still daunting obstacle: the sheer size of the health sector, the multiplicity of powerful groups with conflicting interests, and the factionalized U.S. political system. But change is in the air and chances for health care reform seem more likely than ever. However, Henry Aaron argues not to overreach and risk failure; instead he says the focus should be on essential and achievable steps that will sustain long-term change.
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, Mark McClellan discussed comparative effectiveness as just one step in the larger process of developing and applying evidence to improve the quality and value of health care.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:00 GMT
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- December 17, 2008, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Numerous organizations have expressed interest in establishing a Long-Term Care Quality Alliance in an effort to achieve sustainable, high-value, and person-focused long-term care in the United States. Based on an initial meeting and subsequent discussions with a wide range of stakeholders, there is consensus that the Alliance should focus on implementing or speeding efforts to improve quality in long-term care and related areas at the person level, regardless of setting.
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Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- December 16, 2008, 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
A day-long public workshop on FDA's Sentinel Initiative was held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration and the eHealth Initiative Foundation and convened by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Increasing the adoption of health information technology (IT) has the potential to not only improve quality of care, but also change the way health care is delivered.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT
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- November 24, 2008, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Mark McClellan, Carolyn Clancy and other distinguished experts addressed current opportunities to accelerate the adoption and integration of health IT, with an emphasis on how it can lead to higher quality care at lower costs.
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Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right direction, but much more remains to be done. In a recent article in The Lancet, Brookings scholars David de Ferranti and Maria-Luisa Escobar, along with Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, and Yuxin Zhao, examine key challenges that need to be met and explore lessons from other countries.
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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- November 17, 2008, 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
With health care spending continuing to rise and an economy in crisis, what are the most promising ways forward to lower health care costs, improve care and provide sustainable coverage? How will health care reform efforts unfold with the new administration and Congress? To address these and other questions, Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings, brought experts and policy-makers together to discuss the prospects for reforming our nation’s health care system. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) gave opening remarks.
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
From the standpoint of presidential and congressional leadership heading into 2009, one thing is clear: Now is the time for action on a different vision for health care reform.
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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
According to a widely held view, the U.S. health care system is replete with waste, the removal of which can finance health care reform. Unfortunately, what waste really means is poorly understood, and the potential for realizing quick savings is quite limited. Several measures hold out the promise of curbing the growth of health care spending, but savings are likely to be slow in coming says Henry Aaron.
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The high and rising cost of expanding coverage is a major reason why previous attempts to achieve universal coverage have not succeeded, and why reform will keep getting harder, writes Mark McClellan, if we use the same approaches as in the past.
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:30:00 GMT
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- October 08, 2008, 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Reducing the number of people without insurance coverage remains an important policy priority at both the state and federal levels. However, current financial challenges and budget shortfalls mean that in addition to expanding affordable coverage options, policymakers must continue to seek ways to improve the delivery of care – and at lower costs.
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Many Democrats see a return to the White House a call to resume the fight for full-blown national health insurance. Henry Aaron argues, a more modest, step-by-step approach carries a greater chance of success and—even more important—a smaller chance of devastating failure.
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- September 26, 2008, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Consensus among stakeholders is needed to find solutions to critical questions regarding the future of clinical cancer research.
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- July 11, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Brookings’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a briefing on long-term care reform in the United States that focused on opportunities to improve quality of care and address the long-term fiscal challenges. Distinguished panelists included Senators Ron Wyden and Susan Collins; Representative Jim McCrery; Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag; former Senator Bob Kerrey; and former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT
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- June 13, 2008, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
On June 13, 2008, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a public forum on prescription drug safety that included a brief overview of current Food and Drug Administration activity as well as progress to date on a host of technical, legal, and communications-related challenges identified in the course of the center's ongoing collaborative work in this area.
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Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Tax incentives for employer-sponsored insurance and other medical spending cost about $200 billion annually and have pervasive effects on coverage and costs. In this paper, Jason Furman surveys a range of proposals to reform health care, either by adding new tax incentives or by limiting or replacing the existing tax incentives.
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Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:57:19 GMT
Mark McClellan, announcing the launch of the Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care, an initiative of the Bipartisan Policy Center, says there must be improved access to quality coverage if we hope to have a healthier and more productive America.
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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Hugh B. Price and Oliver Sloman look at the challenge in linking community agencies like the YMCA, as well as local schools, with health care professionals who can help children and their families ward off obesity and curtail the accompanying chronic illnesses.
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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT
While voters are trying to figure out which presidential candidate has the better health care plan, Henry Aaron writes that there are little differences between the candidates’ health care plans, and argues that voters should focus on who can govern effectively.
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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Henry Aaron argues that the nation cannot afford to once again walk away from the health care mess with nothing to show.
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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Henry Aaron raises questions about the health-care budget and finding solutions to this long term problem.
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Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:57:21 GMT
The Brookings Institution announced today the creation of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and the appointment of Brookings Senior Fellow Mark B. McClellan MD, PhD, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as the center's founding director. The Engelberg Center will address the challenges of access, quality and finance facing the U.S. health care system and it will seek to effect lasting change by providing practical solutions that result in high-quality, innovative, affordable health care.
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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:25:19 GMT
The president’s veto of legislation to reauthorize the popular SCHIP program has ramifications for children and for next year’s elections. Brookings’s Henry Aaron talks about what is at stake in the congressional debate about health coverage for low-income children.
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Henry J. Aaron (10/03/07)
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Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In testimony to the Senate Budget Committee, Henry Aaron reviews options for health care reform.
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Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Op-ed by Carol Graham, Ross A. Hammond and H. Peyton Young (08/21/07)
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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by Joshua M. Epstein (07/13/07)
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jason Furman and Robert E. Rubin (July 2007)
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs (July 2007)
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Several principles govern the creation of our Medicare Part E(veryone) proposal. First, universal health insurance coverage is necessary.
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
On June 28, 2007, Brookings Senior Fellow Mark McClellan testified before the House Budget Committee, discussing the Medicare Advantage program as it relates to the Federal Budget and the overall value it brings to the health care system for the public.
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Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings' Senior Fellow Joshua M. Epstein joined scholars from across the country at the University of Michigan to explore how complex systems approaches can be used to understand the broad problems of population health.
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Mark B. McClellan (April 13, 2007)
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jeanne M. Lambrew (April 2007)
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jason Furman (April 2007)
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse (April 2007)
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Joseph Antos and Alice M. Rivlin (03/28/07)
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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:00:00 GMT
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- March 15, 2007, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Mark B. McClellan (03/14/07)
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article on Ross A. Hammond (03/17/07)
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Alice M. Rivlin Interview on Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007 (3/12/07)
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Book edited by Alice M. Rivlin and Joseph Antos (March 2007)
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Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Henry J. Aaron (2/10/07)
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Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:00:00 GMT
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- February 09, 2007, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
There is a dramatic disconnect between the design and intent of the U.S. government's health care programs when compared to the real needs of the population and in light of the realities of high-powered, very expensive modern medicine. Tinkering with our current approach simply will not solve our problems. We need a fundamental redesign.
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Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Jason Furman (1/31/07)
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Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Henry J. Aaron and Stuart Butler, Salt Lake Tribune (January 1, 2007)
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Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:30:00 GMT
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- December 15, 2006, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
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Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Because of advances in medical knowledge, the sickest and most costly patients usually receive care from multiple physicians who are often based at multiple institutions. We argue that organization of providers into integrated delivery networks is an important tactic for promoting coordination among physicians.
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Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This brief argues that an important strategy for improving healthcare is the development of provider organizations that can implement electronic medical records (EMR) and other systems that can enhance coordination of clinicians, reduce inefficiency, and improve safety and quality.
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Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:30:00 GMT
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- October 19, 2006, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Health experts are concerned that a pandemic influenza could kill millions of people worldwide and cripple the global economy. As governments spend millions of dollars to stockpile medicines and plan emergency responses, what are the critical factors that should be considered for an effective response? Brookings experts addressed the potential impact of a pandemic flu worldwide.
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Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:30:00 GMT
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- February 24, 2006, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
The Bush Administration has proposed a number of health care policies that would place greater responsibility for health care decisions on individuals by expanding the use of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and high deductible insurance plans. The Administration argues that this approach will encourage consumers to spend their health care dollars more cost-effectively, thereby putting downward pressure on health care costs. Critics of these proposals argue that HSAs and high deductible plans are unlikely to control costs or solve other critical problems, including the lack of insurance coverage for 46 million Americans or the pressure on costs from new technologies.
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Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:30:00 GMT
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- February 07, 2006, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Health care reform is back on the national agenda, with President Bush using the State of the Union address to call for expanding health savings accounts, limiting medical malpractice claims and medical errors, and helping workers switch jobs without losing their current health plans. But with health-care costs as a share on national income triple what they were in 1950; the focus seems to be more on restraining costs than increasing access.
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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Henry J. Aaron, Los Angeles Times (1/30/05)
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Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Interview by Henry J. Aaron, The Diane Rehm Show (1/23/06)
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Policy Brief #147 by Henry J. Aaron (December 2005)
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Policy Brief #148 by Henry J. Aaron (December 2005)
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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 GMT
Engelberg Center Director Mark McClellan—alongside health care improvement experts Drs. Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Atul Gawande—brought together teams from 10 high-performing regions to explore the factors that underlie the mechanisms for delivering health care in their communities and to discuss ways to implement such health care in the rest of the country.
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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 GMT
During a recent Capitol Hill briefing, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and other key stakeholders discussed the need for valid, timely, consistent, and widely available information about the quality and cost for care in implementing real health care reform.