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

**Tuesday, May 19, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Protecting Privacy In Digital Contact Tracing For COVID-19: Avoiding A
Regulatory Patchwork

By Carmel Shachar

We should rethink our approach to the governance of digital contact
tracing data to create one regulatory regimen to oversee these programs
and maximize consumer protections, regardless of who is implementing the
apps. Read More >>

How COVID-19 Will Likely Affect Spending, And Why Many Other Analyses
May Be Wrong

By Richard Kronick

Why is it that other analysts are estimating 5 million or more COVID-19
hospitalizations, and I am estimating "only" 1 million-1.6
million? The answer is that my estimate is grounded in data on the
number of hospitalizations that have occurred during the first wave of
infections, and the assumption that the number of hospitalizations in
each subsequent wave will be similar to (or smaller than) the number in
the first wave.Read More >>

COSTS & SPENDING

Single Payer Or Not: Matching Problems With Solutions

By Mark A. Zezza and David Sandman

There are opportunities for meaningful health care reform that can be
accomplished with or without a broad overhaul of the system. Read More
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IN THE JOURNAL

SYSTEMS OF CARE

Provider Integrated Medicare Advantage Plans Are Associated With
Differences In Patterns Of Inpatient Care

By David J. Meyers, Vincent Mor, and Momotazur Rahman

Health systems have increasingly developed integrated Medicare Advantage
(MA) plans to align financial incentives and improve coordination of
care and services across payer and provider. However, little is known
about integrated MA plans' effects on patient outcomes and on care
processes. David Meyers and coauthors used 2015 MA hospitalization data
to assess whether these new models are associated with differences in
the processes that take place during hospitalizations and differences in
patient outcomes. Read More >>

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IN THE MEDIA

Here are some of the media outlets that have featured last week's Fast
Track Ahead of Print article, "Strong Social Distancing Measures In The
United States Reduced The COVID-19 Growth Rate
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health Systems Development

Donors, policy makers, and practitioners must shake off ideology's
grasp and shift their mindset to temper performance-based
financing-and trending strategies like it-with an understanding of
the contexts of countries themselves. In a Health Affairs Blog post,
Yogesh Rajkotia and Leah Breen write that pragmatism, not ideology, must
drive health systems development.

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