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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, January 30, 2020
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PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGYManaging Uncertainty In Drug Value: Outcomes-Based Contracting Supports Value-Based Pricing
By Daniel S. Mytelka, William M. Cassidy, Donald B. Kohn, and Mark R. Trusheim
Outcomes-based contracts do not undercut value-based pricing. Read More >>
ACCESS TO CARESuccessful Decarceration Relies On Access To Health Care
By Jacqueline Lantsman and Mark Osler
If we are going to release more people from prison (and we should), we must ensure that health care coverage is in place to stabilize their lives and enable them to thrive among us.
Read More >>INTEGRATION OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICESWorking Across Sectors To
Improve Health For Older People: The Community Care Connections Program
By Elisa Fisher, Kelley Akiya, Annie Wells, Yan Li, Christine Peck, and José A. Pagán
With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers at New York University and the New York Academy of Medicine evaluated the Community Care Connections (CCC) program, which aims to integrate social services into medical systems of care. There are some promising results from the 2016 to 2019 time period—for example, CCC program participants experienced a 29 percent reduction in inpatient hospitalizations. Read More >>
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GRANTWATCH
The Five Most-Read GrantWatch Blog Posts Of 2019
By Lee-Lee Prina (1/27/20)
See which are the top-five blog posts of 2019 in GrantWatch, our series on health philanthropy. This year, blog posts on a variety of topics were popular. Read More >>
You’ve Got To Hear This: Funding A New Health Policy Podcast
By Steven Birenbaum and Jordan Reese (1/15/20)
The podcasting world is bursting with content, and there are an increasing number of health policy podcasts to choose from. Health philanthropy has been getting involved in this medium, too. For example, two foundations are supporting a new podcast at the intersection of economics and health policy.
Staffers at the two funders explain why they believe in the potential of podcasts and how they plan to build an audience. Read More >>
What Is The Status Of
Research On Low-Value Care?
By Elizabeth L. Cope and Paul Armstrong (1/8/20)
Using the HSRProj database (which includes projects funded by federal and private grants and contracts), researchers at AcademyHealth looked at recent trends in health services research on low-value care (LVC). The authors explain that LVC can include "overuse, underuse, inappropriate use, and unnecessary care." They found that LVC research increased between 2014 and 2017. They also learned which study topics were popular during their search period (January 1, 2014–March 31, 2019). Read More >>
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IN THE JOURNAL
GRANTWATCH
Philanthropic Strategy In The Face Of An Opioid Epidemic
By Jennifer Chubinski and Michelle Lydenberg
The authors are staffers at Interact for Health, a foundation that has worked to address the opioid epidemic in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area since 2008. Cincinnati was particularly hard hit. Their article (free access) discusses the evolution of the foundation’s ongoing work on the crisis. Interact was the region’s first funder to dedicate significant financial and staff resources to combating the problem. The funder’s role went beyond awarding grants, though: it served as a neutral convener, a subject-matter expert, and—in the area of harm reduction—a catalyst for change. The article covers Interact’s funding strategy, outcomes of its funding, lessons learned (from 2008 to 2018), and plans for the future. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Influenza
If you live in the US, your risk of contracting the new strain of coronavirus identified in China is exceedingly low. However, more than 150,000 Americans have been hospitalized due to the flu, and more than 8,000 people have died from their infection. Despite official recommendations for health care workers to receive the influenza vaccine, uptake remains low. A Health Affairs journal article assesses interventions to improve influenza vaccine uptake
among health care workers.
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