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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.
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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 >>

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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