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)
Tag Archives: health care reform
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
Webinar on insurance marketplace experience
From the Commonwealth Fund: Join a Commonwealth Fund–sponsored webinar on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces, hosted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers & the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. Experts working with the three marketplace … 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
Children’s EHR format available in USHIK
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHQR): The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’S) Children’s EHR Format has moved to the United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK). This helps align the Children’s EHR Format with related knowledgebase … 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
Posted in Law & public policy
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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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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Hearsay or Fact: A Symposium on the Communication of the Affordable Care Act
“Hearsay or Fact,” a free symposium sponsored by the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation, the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan, & the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation is scheduled for Monday, November 4, from 1:00 to 5:00 … Continue reading
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Tagged health care reform, health communication, health policy
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New database from CMS: Medicare Provider Charge Data
The Department of Health & Human Services has created a database that for the first time gives consumers information on what hospitals charge. The data, on the charges for services that are provided during the 100 most common Medicare inpatient stays and 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Statistics
Tagged CMS, DHHS, health care reform, health services research, statistics, utilization
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Inequality at the core of high health care spending: A view from the OECD
From the Health Affairs blog: It is commonly said that the US spends more than twice as much on health care as other developed countries, yet its outcomes are worse. The inference is that too much care is provided, to … Continue reading
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Tagged global, health care quality, health care reform, health disparities
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