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

**Thursday, April 23, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

The Potential Health Care Costs And Resource Use Associated With
COVID-19 In The United States

By Sarah M. Bartsch, Marie C. Ferguson, James A. McKennell, Kelly J.
O'Shea, Patrick T. Wedlock, Sheryl S. Siegmund, and Bruce Y. Lee

Sarah Bartsch and coauthors developed a simulation model representing
the US population to estimate resource use and direct medical costs for
interventions and care specific to COVID-19. Read More >>

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Aggregating Counties To Hospital Referral Regions Shows That COVID-19 Is
Everywhere

By Elliott Fisher, Anoop Nanda, Sukdith Punjasthitkul, and Jonathon
Skinner

Given the limited current state of testing for the coronavirus, it will
be important for state policy makers to have data to identify regions
where the virus is still active. Aggregating county-level data to larger
regions can help. Read More >>

Supporting Primary Care In Crisis: A Road Map For A Payer-Backed
COVID-19 Stimulus Package

By Nisarg Patel and Joseph Kwan-Ho Yun

In the absence of dedicated financial relief from the federal
government, assistance from private payers will empower these practices
to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic and continue delivering
high-quality care for their patients well beyond it. Read More >>

Can Community Resource Referral Technologies Support Local COVID-19
Response?

By Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg, and Laura M. Gottlieb

To begin exploring this question, we turned back to ask the platform
vendors we included in our April 2020 Health Affairs article how they
had adapted their systems in light of COVID-19 and to ask our health
care early adopter interviewees how the platform they chose had helped
them respond to the crisis. Here is what we learned from seven vendors
and six informants.
Read More >>

ELSEWHERE @HEALTH AFFAIRS

Writing To Change Health Care: A New Narrative Matters Book

By Jessica Bylander

The new book, Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Health Care
System, comes more than a decade after the first Narrative Matters
collection was published (Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal
Essay in Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), and
features an entirely new lineup. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

INTEGRATING SOCIAL SERVICES & HEALTH

Implementing Community Resource Referral Technology: Facilitators And
Barriers Described By Early Adopters

By Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg, and Laura M. Gottlieb

Health care organizations are increasingly implementing programs to
address patients' social conditions. New technology platforms have
emerged to facilitate referrals to community social services
organizations. To understand the functionalities of these platforms and
identify the lessons learned by their early adopters, Yuri Cartier and
coauthors reviewed nine platforms that were on the market in 2018 and
interviewed representatives from thirty-five early-adopter health care
organizations. Read More >>

Integrating Data To Advance Research, Operations, And Client-Centered
Services In California

By Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Mark Ghaly, and Michael Wilkening

In 2017 the California Health and Human Services Agency partnered with
the University of Southern California to link data across programs.
Emily Putnam-Hornstein and coauthors describe the value of this new
resource, which provides person-oriented data. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Disease Outbreaks

In a Health Affairs Blog post from August 2019, author and physician
Pooja Yerramilli argued that in order to control Ebola, we need a new
approach to disease outbreaks
.
"The international community must address the roots of the Ebola
outbreak and all other outbreaks going forward-with a commitment to
consistent peacekeeping, international aid, and health systems
strengthening not only in words but also in action."

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