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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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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT
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- November 05, 2009, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Health care innovation, done right, creates opportunities for consumers to control their own health records, rate physicians and hospitals, learn from other patients and focus on positive health outcomes. On November 5, Brookings hosted a policy forum to discuss the ways in which digital technology can empower patients and enhance the quality of the American health care system.
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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:58:00 GMT
Technological advances in health care can give consumers more control over key aspects of their care and health outcomes. Darrell West examines the benefits of new technology in the medical system and what it will mean for the quality, accessibility and affordability of health care.
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Health care today is dominated by physicians, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and government agencies. However, imagine a different system where, with the aid of technology, the patient is in charge. Darrell West outlines a vision for a new health care system based on mobile health (mHealth), remote monitors, electronic medical records, social networking sites, video conferencing and Internet-based recordkeeping.
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT
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- October 08, 2009, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
On October 8, The Brookings Institution hosted a policy forum to discuss how digital technology can empower patients to take responsibility for their routine health care, and rely on physicians and hospitals only for more serious medical conditions.
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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 Americans debate about health care reform and how it will affect the doctor-patient relationship, Darrell West discusses how new technologies can bring in a new era of "participatory medicine." The advent of health information technology can generate efficiency, reduce costs, and improve outcomes.
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Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In 2007, Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create a new postmarketing surveillance system that will, by 2012, be using electronic health data from 100 million people to prospectively monitor the safety of marketed medical products. In The New England Journal of Medicine, Mark McClellan and key health policy experts discuss how the FDA's Sentinel Network can achieve this goal with proper organization, operation, and implementation.
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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark McClellan, having served in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, shares his ideas with Dallas Morning News for developing a bipartisan consensus on health reform.
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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Washington’s arguments on new health care reform appear far removed from the public’s needs, writes Darrell West. He argues that the clashes on the so-called public option do not satisfy the most important concern consumers have: that their current care will not suffer.
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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT
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- July 09, 2009, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
On July 9, the Brookings Institution hosted an event to discuss the pros and cons of expanding the new public insurance plan for health care, how to reduce costs while expanding coverage, and the central role of information technology in health reform.
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Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Armed with $19 billion dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Obama administration hopes to employ health information technology to improve medical treatment, cut costs by reducing errors and redundancies, and empower patients by giving them control over their own medical records. Not an easy task, warns Brookings expert Darrell West, since the federal government will need to address the financial, organization, and technological barriers limiting the utilization of health IT in the US.
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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, 04 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT
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- May 04, 2009, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
With more than $19 billion planned in new federal expenditures on health information technology, the Obama administration is taking serious steps towards modernizing the U.S. health care system to reduce health care costs and medical errors. Brookings hosted a discussion on how to bring the benefits of information technology to health care in the United States.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The promise of "e-health" remains largely unfulfilled. In Digital Medicine, Darrell West and Edward Miller investigate the factors limiting the ability of digital technology to remake health care in the United States and around the world in order to understand health care information innovation in a variety of settings.
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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:29:44 GMT
Henry Aaron says health care reform is a critical step forward for the nation and needs to be strategically crafted and implemented. The economy, he adds, could be a factor affecting President Obama’s plans for tackling the issue.
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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Congress quickly passed the State Children's Health Insurance Program in its opening days, but the Obama administration and congressional leaders want to do far more to extend health insurance coverage and reform the delivery of care. While obstacles that have frustrated prior reform efforts remain powerful, Henry Aaron says that the key for Obama will be to identify specific reforms that will move toward his long-term vision.
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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Almost 50 million Americans are uninsured, the cost of public and private health insurance is rising and the quality of care is uneven at best. Henry Aaron offers a public memo to President Obama with recommendations on how to deal with the challenges that will confront him in reforming health care. The memo is the twelfth of 12 Brookings memos on the most crucial public policy priorities facing the new president.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 GMT
Health IT is a critical foundation of successful health care reform that can help the nation achieve cost and quality goals through delivery system innovation. At a July 15 forum, The Markle Foundation, the Center for American Progress and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform discussed strategies for aligning health IT investments and health reform efforts as they took a close look at implications and opportunities for implementation.