| Date | Author | Post Title | Post Summary | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2012 | Catherine Call, Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | Getting the Right Medications Before and After Hospital Discharge |
According to the Institute of Medicine’s Preventing Medication Errors report, the average hospitalized patient encounters at least one medication error per day. |
Aging | Care Transitions | Hospitals |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Diana Williams, Keith S. Whyte | Gambling With Your Health—Literally |
Do you love casinos? How about bingo? Do you bet on the NCAA tournament championship? Do you gamble on the Internet? |
Behavioral Health |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Kaiser Health News | The Health Law and the Supreme Court: A Primer for the Upcoming Oral Arguments |
By Stuart Taylor, Jr. for Kaiser Health News How big is the constitutional challenge to the Obama health care law, which the Supreme Court will hear on March 26-28? |
Health Policy | Health Reform |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Danielle Marshall | Playing Smart: Getting Started on Joint Use Agreements |
The City of Niagara Falls was “spending a lot of money to maintain marginal courts where people didn’t want them anyway, and we were getting complaints from neighbors who lived nea |
Community Health | Obesity | Public Health |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Jesse Milan, Jr., JD | The 2012 International AIDS Conference in America: The World is Invited, but Who Will Respond and Who Will Come? |
The International AIDS Conference is coming to the United States this July 22-27 for the first time in over 20 years. |
Chronic Disease | Health Policy | Public Health |
| Mar 13, 2012 | Loren Bell, Stacy Gleason | New WIC Food Package Widely Accepted, But Challenges Remain |
The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income, pre |
Childhood Obesity | Health Policy | Women & Children |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Taylor Walsh | Edging into the Center: Health Prevention, Improving the Research Process, and the Placebo Effect |
It is often difficult to discern what is happening on the fringe of things and then decide whether any of it matters. |
Health Policy | Public Health |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Activating Consumers with Financial Control: Lessons from Health Savings Accounts |
Health Savings Accounts are growing up. No longer an oddity, millions of families have accounts funded by tens of thousands of employers (1). |
Consumer Choice |
| Mar 5, 2012 | Charles Roehrig, Ph.D. | On “the Myth of Runaway Health Spending”: Is the Crisis Really Ending? |
Center for Sustainable Health Spending colleagues George Miller, Ph.D. and Paul Hughes-Cromwick have the following thoughts. |
Consumer Choice | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Janice Lynch Schuster | What Does It Matter to You: Patient Activation and Good Health Outcomes |
A few days into my 68-year old father’s hospitalization for sepsis, his doctors determined the strain of bacteria that plagued him: streptococcus. |
Aging | Care Transitions |
