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| Date | Author | Post Title | Post Summary | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2012 | Charles Roehrig, Ph.D. | Thoughts on Robert Samuelson's "Cutting Health-Care Spending the Old-Fashioned Way" |
Kudos to Robert Samuelson (Op-Ed, January 16, 2012, Th |
Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Jan 26, 2012 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Are Consumers Ready to Transform Health Care? If Not Now, When? |
There is a massive untapped resource in health care: consumers. |
Consumer Choice | Health Policy |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Danielle Marshall | Encouraging Risk in a Risk Adverse World |
“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. |
Childhood Obesity | Women & Children |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Hua Carroll, M.D. | Cultural Differences in the Treatment of Pain | Due to the rapid increase in prescription drug abuse, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared prescription drug abuse an epidemic. The latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health indicates that over 70 percent of people who abused prescription pain medications obtained them from friends or relatives, while approximately 5 percent got them from a drug dealer or over the Internet. | Chronic Disease | Public Health |
| Jan 17, 2012 | Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D. | Resolving to Talk with Your Loved Ones About Aging with Dignity and Independence | Although not an easy discussion, it is vital that we know the preferences and choices of loved ones (and they know ours) regarding the kind of support you and those you love expect long before a crisis occurs. | Aging | Medicare |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Kaiser Health News | The Walmart Opportunity: Can Retailers Revamp Primary Care? | Just as Walmart and other retailers shook up the prescription drug business by offering $4 generic drugs, the industry now aims to apply its negotiating and marketing clout to tackle problems that vex consumers and the health sector: unpredictable costs, a lack of primary care doctors and inefficient management of chronic illnesses, whose costs drive the majority of health care spending. | Consumer Choice | Insurance | Public Health |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | Tell Me About It: Clinicians Must Work with Patients To Develop Good Care Plans |
Our health care system ably treats sudden threats to life, prevents many illnesses and cures much of what ails us. |
Aging | Chronic Disease |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Laura Segal | Are We Ready or Not for the Next Public Health Emergency? | It seems that a number of programs that help detect and respond to bioterrorism and other health emergencies are at risk for major cuts or elimination. | Public Health | Public Health Preparedness |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Most Consumers Don't Ask About the Price of Health Care Services |
How interested are consumers in the price of health care services? Results from our Consumer Opinion survey indicate that most consumers have never asked about the price of a health care serv |
Consumer Choice | Costs & Economic Analysis | Insurance |
| Jan 5, 2012 | Kaiser Health News | Grading Docs With Electronic Medical Records | Once most doctors saw how grading could help them improve, they were won over. Electronic medical records are good for the patient, the doctor and the bottom line. But they're not the silver bullet that will slay all the nation's health care problems. | Health Reform | Information Technology |
| Jan 3, 2012 | Zack Cooper | We Need to Focus on Hospital Prices - It’s Where the Money Is | The U.S. hospital sector is one of the largest industries in the United States. It’s a $700 billion dollar industry, and there is twice as much money spent on hospital care than is spent on the purchase of new cars. | Hospitals | Medicare |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D. | Small Business and Exchanges: SHOP Till You Drop | Assuming the 2010 health care law survives through 2014, one of the big questions is the future of small-group insurance plans – those in which the employer chooses and administers a plan or plans for employees. The health insurance exchanges built into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) create mechanisms for small-group survival, but also powerful incentives for their dissolution. | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Dec 15, 2011 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Paying Patients to Take Drugs or Helping Them Make Informed Choices? | While there is certainly evidence that cost influences a person’s likelihood of refilling medications, price is only one of many factors. It’s not a single conscious choice between taking a pill or not; it is ongoing management of a complex array of daily and weekly activities. | Chronic Disease | Consumer Choice | Public Health |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Rochelle Sharpe | The Key to Longevity? A Healthy Lifestyle | The secrets of longevity are not so secret any more. Scientists know a lot about how diet, exercise, and social connections can extend the human lifespan. Study after study has shown that genes don’t affect life expectancy nearly as much as the environment.Enter Dan Buettner, best-selling author of The Blue Zones, who wrote a fascinating account of four places in the world where people live the longest – outliving Americans by more than a decade. | Public Health |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D. | Hiding in Plain Sight: Seeing the Person Beyond the Patient | High-quality, cost-effective health care delivery is all about targeting: the right care, by the right provider, at the right time, in the right place, and for the right cost. It sounds straightforward, almost easy. The challenge to getting it right is understanding the range of variables in a person’s life that drive health care use and costs. | Chronic Disease | Medicare |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Joanne Kenen | Finding The Sweet Spot Where Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and System Integration Intersect | Dealing with the hard stuff – the very sick, the complex, the dying – is the essence of quality health care in an aging society. | Aging | Chronic Disease | Hospitals |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Charles Roehrig, Ph.D. | What is “Sustainable” Health Spending? (Part I) | There is surprisingly little consensus – and not even much being written – about what growth rate would be “sustainable”? Defining sustainable growth and establishing a credible target is one of our top research priorities. | Health Reform | Medicare |
| Nov 29, 2011 | Laura Segal | Healthier Americans for a Healthier Economy | Preventing disease is one of the most common sense ways to improve health in America. But it is also a major factor for improving the economy. | Chronic Disease | Obesity | Public Health |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D., Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | After CLASS: A Long-Term Care Insurance System | Let’s not capitalize on or mourn the loss of CLASS for too long. We have work to do – and we do not have the luxury of time before forging ahead. | Aging | Health Reform |
| Nov 17, 2011 | Danielle Marshall | Boosting Creative Play Through Loose Parts | The use of open-ended play materials is as old as play itself... having seen the rich experiences that develop as children engage in play with open-ended materials it is hard not to advocate for their increased use. | Women & Children |