New From Health Affairs
New Issue August 2010
Lessons From Around The World
DAVID BLUMENTHAL and DONALD BERWICK
Adoption and Meaningful Use of EHRs
NARRATIVE MATTERS
Ashamed To Admit It: Owning Up To Medical Error
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF
'Meaningful Use' Of Electronic Health Records
Recent Issue July 2010
Weighing the Impact Of Health Reform
- August 26, 2010Web First
Tracking Hospital Use of Electronic Health Records
- A modest increase from 2008 to 2009 - but only 2 percent meet the federal government’s "meaningful use" criteria.
- August 12, 2010Web First
Nonelderly Medicare Beneficiaries
- New report shows that for the eight million disabled Medicare beneficiaries under 65, access and cost can be more problematic.
- July 29, 2010Web First
Colorectal Cancer Screening Options
- A new study demonstrates that for screening programs with limited budgets, the Hemoccult SENSA test would result in more life-years gained across an overall population.
- August 05, 2010HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use
- With new final regulations governing “meaningful use” of EHR, what steps will the private sector take and what roadblocks must be addressed? David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, and Donald Berwick, administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, along with representatives of eight insurer and health specialty groups offer reactions on Health Affairs Blog.
- July 30, 2010Health Reform
Implementing Health Reform
- This ongoing Health Affairs Blog series by law professor Timothy Jost outlines key reform implementation issues: pre-existing condition coverage, appeals of coverage denials, coverage for preventive services, a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax-exempt hospitals, small-employer tax credit, Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult insurance coverage.
'Meaningful Use' Of Electronic Health Records
- Hospitals and doctors will soon be eligible for federal incentives to help acquire and use health information technology.August 24, 2010
Update: Extra Federal Support For Medicaid
- Congress has voted to extend for six months a temporary increase in federal Medicaid funding for recession-plagued states. The measure will avert potentially drastic state spending cuts.August 11, 2010
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan
- A new program will provide coverage to people with costly preexisting health conditions. But the program faces challenges--starting with the funding.August 10, 2010
Accountable Care Organizations
- This year's health care reform legislation authorizes Medicare to contract with ACOs and provide care for enrollees. What awaits health systems, physicians, administrators, insurers, patients, and policy makers as ACOs take shape?July 27, 2010
Ashamed To Admit It: Owning Up To Medical Error
- A doctor considers the roles of disclosure and apology in medicine, wondering if the profession needs a version of open-heart surgery to examine the feelings and emotions within.
Current Issue
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Health Reform and Election Battles
- How Spain Refocused on Primary Care
- Interview: Switzerland’s Health System
- How to Get Doctors to Work in Rural Africa
- International Medical School Graduates
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Team-Based Primary Care
- Beyond Health Reform: A Healthier America
- Push On Patient-Centered Care
- Affordable Care Act Needs New Name
- Oregon’s Medicaid Expansion
- Competition for Medicaid Enrollees
- Expenses for Disabled Adults in Medicaid
- Health Spending and Mortality
- Physician Cost Profiles
- View Table of Contents »
- New Ideas In Medicaid Financing 01 Sep 2010
- Health Affairs Briefing: Medical Liability And ER Use 31 Aug 2010
- Robert Butler’s Legacy 30 Aug 2010
- Revisiting ‘Witness To Disaster’: First-Person Accounts Of Katrina’s Aftermath 27 Aug 2010
- Berwick To Speak AT AHIP Conference 27 Aug 2010
- Hurricanes’ Effects on Health Care and What Foundations Are Funding in Louisiana 01 Sep 2010
- Recent Foundation Funding in Global Health: Helping Haitians after the Earthquake; HIV/AIDS 27 Aug 2010
- Can Funders Quell a ‘Perfect Storm of Overutilization’? 25 Aug 2010
- On the Philanthropy Blogs Roundup: Health Reform, Dengue, Polling, and More 20 Aug 2010
- Health Reform at the Retail Level: Community by Community, State by State 19 Aug 2010
Now Playing Advancing Electronic Health Records Adoption and Meaningful Use
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- Moving Forward on Health Reform June 08, 2010
- Blog Roundtable: CMS Leaders Discuss Health Reform April 09, 2010
- Newsmaker Breakfast With Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) March 11, 2010
- The economics of childhood obesity.
- Privacy as an enabler, not an impediment: building trust into health information exchange.
- Childhood obesity: the new tobacco.
- Enhancing primary care through online communication.
- Will generalist physician supply meet demands of an increasing and aging population?
- The economics of childhood obesity.
- No harm found when nurse anesthetists work without supervision by physicians.
- Calorie labeling and food choices: a first look at the effects on low-income people in New York City.
- Hospitals' responses to nurse staffing shortages.
- Beyond the affordable care act: achieving real improvements in Americans' health.