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Save to My PortfolioWhat Health Care Innovation Means for Consumers

Thursday, November 05, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Jessica RinaldiHealth 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. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioTechnological Advances in Health Care

Darrell M. West, November 04, 2009

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.

Health Care, Health IT, Technology

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioConsumer-Driven Medicine: How Digital and Mobile Technologies Can Improve Health Care

Thursday, October 08, 2009
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioCustomer-Driven Medicine: How to Create a New Health Care System

Darrell M. West, October 08, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Customer-Driven Medicine: How to Create a New Health Care SystemHealth 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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioBending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth

Joseph Antos, John Bertko, Michael Chernew, David Cutler, Dana Goldman, Mark B. McClellan, Elizabeth McGlynn, Mark Pauly, Leonard Schaeffer and Stephen Shortell, September 01, 2009, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Medicare, Public Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioImproving Quality and Value in the U.S. Health Care System

Aaron McKethan, Mark Shepard, S. Lawrence Kocot, Niall Brennan, Marisa Morrison, Nadia Nguyen, Reginald D. Williams II and Nicole Cafarella, August 21, 2009, Bipartisan Policy Center

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Medicare

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioDigital Health and Participatory Medicine

Darrell M. West, August 12, 2009, The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Information Technology, Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe New Sentinel Network — Improving the Evidence of Medical-Product Safety

Richard Platt, Marcus Wilson, K. Arnold Chan, Joshua S. Benner, Janet Marchibroda and Mark B. McClellan, July 27, 2009, The New England Journal of Medicine

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.    Read More

Health Care, Health IT

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioControlling Health Care Costs

Mark B. McClellan, July 24, 2009, Dallas Morning News

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Health Care Disconnect

Darrell M. West, July 10, 2009, Reuters

The Health Care DisconnectWashington’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. Read More

Health Care, Public Health, Polling and Public Opinion, Health IT, U.S. Politics

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioHealth Care Reform: Should We Expand Our Public Plan?

Thursday, July 09, 2009
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Shannon StapletonOn 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. Read More

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PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioHealth IT and Health Reform: Linking Incentives to Drive Accountability and Value

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Washington, DC

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. Read More

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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioExpanding Health Information Technology in the United States

Darrell M. West, May 20, 2009, The Huffington Post

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Executive Branch, Technology, The Presidency

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Save to My PortfolioHealth 2.0: Adopting Health Information Technology in the United States

Monday, May 04, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Washington, DC

ReutersWith 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. Read More

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BOOK

Save to My PortfolioDigital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era

Darrell M. West and Edward Alan Miller, April 01, 2009

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Information Technology

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 quality and value in health care.

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Darrell M. West

Darrell M. West

Vice President and Director, Governance Studies

Darrell M. West is the vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings. His studies include campaigns and elections, political advertising, mass media, public opinion, technology policy and electronic government.
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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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