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Save to My PortfolioPolicy Megachange and Health Information Exchanges

Wednesday, February 08, 2012
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

BluestockingHealth care represents nearly one-sixth of the overall economy and has costs that are growing well beyond the inflation rate. Health information exchanges represent one way to improve data-sharing capacity among the many actors - patients, physicians, hospitals, vendors, payers, and advocacy organizations - who are part of the health care system. On February 8, Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation, moderated a conversation on the issues surrounding implementation of health information exchanges. Read More

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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioHealth Information Exchanges and Megachange

Allan A. Friedman and Darrell M. West, February 08, 2012, The Brookings Institution

Health Information Exchanges and MegachangeDarrell West and Allan Friedman study how state-level health information exchanges (HIE's) are implemented, where there are opportunities for action and who drives policy change. In particular, this paper addresses the effectiveness and viability of HIE’s in Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, and California and explores why Massachusetts and Indiana are most successful across a number of metrics. Read More

Health IT, Health Care, Information Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioComments on the Proposed Rulemaking for the Medicare Shared Savings Program

June 06, 2011, The Brookings Institution

The Engelberg Center and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the Medicare Shared Savings Program Notice for Proposed Rulemaking, focusing on key principles that can have a significant impact on the cost and quality of the U.S. health care system.   Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Medicare, Medicaid, Entitlement Programs

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Save to My PortfolioHealth IT in an Era of Accountable Care: Update from the Beacon Communities

Tuesday, May 17, 2011
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

The Engelberg Center hosted a forum highlighting the Beacon Community Program, a major project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Panelists focused on health IT implementation strategies to accelerate clinical transformation, and discussed how various Beacon communities are advancing broader health care reform efforts. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Technology, Public Health

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Save to My PortfolioEnabling Personalized Medicine through Health Information Technology

Friday, January 28, 2011
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

BluestockingPersonalized medicine can offer better-targeted treatments, health system cost savings and an enhanced understanding of care options’ comparative effectiveness. On January 28, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a policy discussion focused on the challenges of enabling personalized medicine, as well as the policy and operational changes that would facilitate connectivity, integration, reimbursement reform and secondary analysis of information. Read More

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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioEnabling Personalized Medicine through Health Information Technology: Advancing the Integration of Information

Darrell M. West, January 28, 2011, The Brookings Institution

Enabling Personalized Medicine through Health Information Technology: Advancing the Integration of InformationWith scientific innovation running far ahead of public policy, physicians, researchers, and patients are not receiving the full advantage of latest developments, writes Darrell West. Current policies should leverage new advances in genomics and personalized medicine in order to individualize diagnosis and treatment. Darrell West focuses on the challenges of enabling personalized medicine, as well as the policy and operational changes that would facilitate connectivity, integration, reimbursement reform, and analysis of information. Read More

Health IT, Technology

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Save to My PortfolioThird Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop

Wednesday, January 12, 2011
8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Washington, DC

In May 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled the Sentinel Initiative – a national electronic data system designed to track the safety of drugs, biologics, and medical devices in the United States. On January 12, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted the third annual Sentinel Initiative public workshop, bringing together the stakeholder community for a discussion on technical and policy issues that are critical to the initiative’s success. Read More

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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioBending the Curve through Health Reform Implementation

Joseph Antos, PhD, John Bertko, Michael Chernew, PhD, David Cutler, PhD, Francois de Brantes, Dana Goldman, PhD, Bob Kocher, Mark B. McClellan, Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD, Mark Pauly, PhD, Leonard Schaeffer and Stephen Shortell, PhD, October 2010, The Brookings Institution

Bending the Curve through Health Reform ImplementationIn September 2009, a group of leading health policy experts, including Engelberg Center Director Mark McClellan, released a set of concrete, feasible steps for both slowing spending growth and improving quality and value in health care. In light of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, these experts have regrouped to update their recommendations, focusing on important opportunities that will require decisive steps in regulation and execution to fulfill their potential for curbing spending growth. Read More

Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Health IT, Public Health

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Save to My PortfolioAccelerating Health Care Innovation to Achieve System-Wide Impact

Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Jim BourgWith U.S. health care expenditures projected to double by 2035, reforming payment and delivery systems is essential to reining in costs and achieving higher-value care. The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings hosted a forum focused on key themes for accelerating health care innovation, including the importance of strategic public and private collaboration and alignment of investments to effect system-wide improvements in payment and delivery. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Growth through Innovation

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Save to My PortfolioEnsuring Access to Effective Patient Medication Information

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Lucy NicholsonConsumers and patients need information about their medications that is accurate, balanced and delivered in an easily understood format. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that current systems consistently fail to fulfill these needs. On October 12, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings hosted a public forum to discuss strategies for ensuring that patients have access to effective patient medication information. Read More

Health Care, Health IT

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Save to My PortfolioBrookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Learning from the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP)

Thursday, July 01, 2010
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Washington, DC

The Engelberg Center hosted a Webinar focused on the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership's research into methods for analyzing existing health care databases to evaluate the safety and benefit of drugs already on the market. Read More

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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioOvercoming Rural Health Care Barriers through Innovative Wireless Health Technologies

Darrell M. West, June 24, 2010, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health

Overcoming Rural Health Care Barriers through Innovative Wireless Health TechnologiesIn congressional testimony, Darrell West argued that wireless health technologies can provide quality and accessible care to rural veterans who live great distances from medical facilities, and gain budgetary efficiencies in the process. According to West, health care services and procedures based on mobile health, remote monitors, electronic medical records, social networking sites, video conferencing, and Internet-based recordkeeping can make a positive difference in people’s care. Read More

Health IT, U.S. Congress, Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

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Save to My PortfolioBrookings Active Surveillance Implementation Council Meeting #1

Wednesday, June 02, 2010
8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

The Engelberg Center hosted the first BASIC meeting, where council members discussed a number of ongoing safety surveillance pilot projects and considered how to apply relevant lessons to the development of the Sentinel System. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Public Health

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Save to My PortfolioMaking “Enhanced Use” of Health Information

Friday, May 14, 2010
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/H. KangRecently passed health reform legislation, together with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides an unprecedented opportunity to transform our current care delivery system into a high-value health care system. On May 14, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings hosted a forum to identify practical solutions for use of electronic health information on a national scale and to examine best practices of organizations already using such information. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Information Technology

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Save to My PortfolioRoundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Learning from The DELTA System and the Massachusetts Interventional Cardiology Device Safety Surveillance Pilot Project

Friday, May 07, 2010
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Washington, DC

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a roundtable webinar on active medical product surveillance, focusing on learnings from the DELTA System and the Massachusetts Interventional Cardiology Device Safety Surveillance Pilot Project. Read More

Health Care, Health IT

In Brief

The effective adoption and use of health information technology can provide significant support for broader efforts to reform health care in the United States, plus reduce health care costs and medical errors. Brookings experts explore the benefits of health IT and, in particular, how it can improve the quality of health care, and make the system more cost-effective in the long term.

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Darrell M. West

Darrell M. West

Vice President and Director, Governance Studies

Darrell M. West is vice president and director of Governance Studies and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. His studies include technology policy, electronic government, and mass media.
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Mark B. McClellan

Mark B. McClellan

Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies

A medical doctor and economist, Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.
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