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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 >>
Health Affairs COVID-19 Resource Center

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 >>
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":
New York Times
Univision News
CNN

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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