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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Tuesday, July 2, 2019**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Provider Conscience Rule Delayed Due to Lawsuits

By Katie Keith

The effective date of the final rule is officially delayed by four
months-until November 22, 2019. This delay is designed to give the
parties and the court time to consider a preliminary injunction and
potentially resolve the case on the merits. Read More >>

PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Innovation Prizes To Support Cell And Gene Therapy

By James C. Robinson

Rather than fund R&D for cell and gene therapy primarily through
patent-protected prices, this is the moment to acknowledge the
shortcomings of the conventional financing framework and to consider
expanding it to a portfolio of alternatives. Read More >>

Biologics Are Not Natural Monopolies

By Alex Brill and Benedic Ippolito

We argue that the economic and clinical realities of biologics do not
make them natural monopolies even if the market for biosimilars does not
look exactly the same as the market for small molecule generics. Read
More >>

CONSUMER HEALTH

Building Consumer Engagement In Health Care: From Transactional To
Transformational

By Ann Hwang

The Consumer Voices for Innovation program, funded by a legacy grant
from the Atlantic Philanthropies, strives to build consumer engagement
in health care. The program's first phase funded advocacy groups in six
states. It succeeded in bringing consumer input to delivery system
reform initiatives at the state level, such as Medicaid ACO models,
managed long-term services and supports programs, and programs for dual
eligibles. It also created communities of consumers. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

Physicians' Well-Being Linked To In-Basket Messages Generated By
Algorithms In Electronic Health Records

By Ming Tai-Seale, Ellis C. Dillon, Yan Yang, Robert Nordgren, Ruth L.
Steinberg, Teresa Nauenberg, Tim C. Lee, Amy Meehan, Jinnan Li, Albert
Solomon Chan, and Dominick L. Frosch

Ming Tai-Seale and coauthors examine how physicians interact with
electronic health records (EHRs) at a health care system in California.
Read More >>

This paper is part of our series on The Practice of Medicine
, supported
by the Physicians Foundation.

Read the July 2019 Table of Contents

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Call For Submissions: Narrative Matters Poetry Contest 2019

The Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is seeking poetry
submissions for an upcoming issue of the journal.

We are holding a poetry contest, from July 1 to August 31, looking for
well-crafted poems that touch on topics related to health and health
policy. Three winning poems will be announced in September. Winning
poets will receive a monetary prize-$500 for first place, $300 for
second, and $100 for third-as well as publication in Health Affairs,
and two copies of the issue containing the winning poems.

All entries will be read and judged by Health Affairs staff.

* Limit 3 poems submitted per person. Each poem-in pdf or Word doc
format-should be submitted as a separate entry through our submission
portal
here
.

* Poems must be no longer than a single-spaced page, with double spaces
between stanzas

* Font size no smaller than 11 point.

* Poems must be written in English.

* Poems must be previously unpublished.

* Poems themselves should contain no personal identifiers.

You can read some earlier poems published by

**Health Affairs**, including the winners of the 2015 Narrative Matters
poetry contest
,
poems by patients and consumers
,
poems on vulnerable populations
,
and poems on the cancer experience
.

We look forward to reading your submissions!

A CLOSER LOOK-Drug Overdoses

New CDC data indicate that the rate of overdose deaths in the US is
falling for the first time in decades. This decrease is credited in part
to increased access to naloxone. In an Entry Point in 2015, Keith
Humphreys wrote about this overdose antidote
going
mainstream.

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