| Date | Author | Post Title | Post Summary | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2011 | Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | Evidence-Based Interventions: Replicate or Adapt? | Carefully done research on small numbers in a few settings will not be enough to guide practical implementation of process redesign. | Aging | Chronic Disease | Hospitals |
| Oct 25, 2011 | Zack Cooper | Our (Limited) Policy Toolbox for Slowing Health Care Spending Growth | Nearly every developed country is under substantial pressure to slow the growth in health care spending. However, as we have seen, while virtually every country has pledged to spend less, few have been successful. | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Danielle Marshall | Running, Chasing, Fleeing: Why We Need Rough and Tumble Play | If we can look past our fears that rough and tumble play breeds aggression, we can focus on its merits. | Public Health | Women & Children |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Rochelle Sharpe | Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You? | The store offers a mindboggling array of creative apps, including ones that calculate calories burned during exercise, create soundtracks to help people fall asleep, and display pictures that can elicit memories from Alzheimer’s patients. If the store doesn’t offer something for what ails you now, it probably will soon. | Information Technology | Public Health |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Note to Consumers: The Rules in Health Care Are a Little Different | Because consumers don’t realize that the price of health care products and services is set very differently than prices in other markets, it leads to perceptions and behaviors that can be expensive and even dangerous. | Consumer Choice | Health Policy | Public Health |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D. | Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities | The 2010 health care law will conjure up a strange brew of inequities as it comes to a boil in 2014. The mechanistic, one-size-fits-all health insurance subsidies, for example, will generate serious questions about the law’s fairness. | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Oct 6, 2011 | Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D. | Are We There Yet? A Look at the National Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard | So many fundamental activities crucial to our daily lives can be measured with certainty and confidence, but not so in health care—and certainly not when it comes to aging and long-term services and supports. | Aging | Chronic Disease |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Joanne Kenen | Innovations in Caregiver Support During Hospice | A look at at three research projects aimed at developing something that may work—something that may improve end of life care for both the patient and the family. | Chronic Disease | Information Technology |
