Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Category Archives: Law & public policy
Palliative care, health policy, and health reform
From the Health Affairs Blog: In the United States, value is the new health care imperative – improving quality while controlling costs. We spend nearly twice the rate of comparable nations, yet have poorer health outcomes. In 2010, President Obama … Continue reading
Implementing health reform: An October through December enrollment report
From the Health Affairs Blog: On January 13, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report on the Health Insurance Marketplace covering the first three months of open enrollment, October 1 through December 28, 2013. The data … Continue reading
Making New York the healthiest state
From the Health Affairs Blog: In early December, the New York State Health Foundation and the New York State Department of Health cosponsored a summit focused on improving population health, with the title, “Making New York the Healthiest State: Achieving the Triple Aim.” We … Continue reading
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Tagged health care reform, health disparities, health policy, utilization
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Better care at lower cost: Is it possible?
From the Commonwealth Fund: Evidence continues to pour in that America’s sky-high health care spending is not only unsustainable, it isn’t making us any healthier either—especially compared with other advanced countries. But what are we to do about it? In Better … Continue reading
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Tagged health care reform, health disparities, health policy
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New health policy brief: Specialty pharmaceuticals
From Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Specialty pharmaceuticals–drugs and biologics used to treat chronic, serious, or life-threatening diseases–are complex to manufacture and distribute, often difficult to administer, and may require special patient monitoring. They are a rapidly … Continue reading
Unpacking the FDA’s new Trans fat ban
Ten University of Michigan School of Public Health graduate students are once again blogging at Mind the Science Gap. Here’s a recent post on a ruling by the Food & Drug Adminstration on trans fats. Enjoy–& comment!
Life expectancy approach for measuring disparities
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): As a new way to measure health care disparities, a new AHRQ study proposes analyzing health insurance status and medical need over a typical lifetime by ethnic group. This life expectancy approach can … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRQ, health care reform, health disparities, research
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Extending Gene-Environment Interactions into Policy Domains: The Case of Tobacco Taxation
Jason Fletcher, associate professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin, will present the first seminar of the 2013-2014 invited speaker series on population health issues sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program (http://www.sph.umich.edu/rwjhssp/) and … Continue reading
State lessons on health system reform
There is a new issue brief available from the Commonwealth Fund: State Innovation Models: Early Experiences and Challenges of an Initiative to Advance Broad Health System Reform. Since July 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded 25 … Continue reading
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The latest Health Wonk Review – Data, medicine, insurance reform, and more
From the Health Affairs Blog and Boston Health News: Health data is a theme of this edition of the Health Wonk Review because it is also the focus of the current Knight News Challenge. That contest rewards media innovation with … Continue reading
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Tagged health care reform, health policy, insurance, statistics
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