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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
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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
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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 >>
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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.
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Call For Submissions: Narrative Matters Poetry Contest 2019The 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!
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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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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE: MILITARY MEDICINE
Military Medicine Briefing – REGISTRATION OPENING SOON
September 12,
2019
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when there’s more information available on this event.
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