This clinical service operations program provides physicians, clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and administrators with the operations management training they need to lead teams, optimize efficiency, and improve the patient experience. Learn More >>
As federal and state lawmakers look to revamp privacy rules, this post outlines a proposal to adapt and extend the familiar HIPAA framework, and some of the
fiduciary principles embedded in that framework, for a new era of digital-first health care. Read More >>
This post discusses the history of the risk corridors litigation, the arguments made by the parties and amici, the oral argument, and potential outcomes. A decision, which will have implications beyond the risk corridors program, is expected by summer 2020. Read More >>
HEALTH CARE SPENDING
Health Conundrum: How State Budgets Can Find
The Balance Between Social Versus Medical Services By Shannon Brownlee, Vikas Saini, and Benjamin F. Miller Can the United States bring down overall health care costs by spending more on social determinants of health? The authors say that strategy remains unproven. However, states are the
principal spenders on social services. Few studies have directly examined the tradeoffs that states and local governments are making between social services and health care. The authors discuss results of a Lown Institute report—funded by Well Being Trust—on California spending. Read More >>
Despite well-documented health disparities by rurality and race/ethnicity, research investigating racial/ethnic health differences among US rural residents is limited. We used county-level data
to measure and compare premature death rates in rural counties by each county’s majority racial/ethnic group. Read More >>
Rural America faces numerous public health challenges, including reduced access to health services, poor nutrition, uncontrolled diabetes, mental and substance use disorders, heart disease, and stroke. We evaluated rural and urban progress toward national targets for rates of the seven major causes of death tracked by Healthy People 2020, an initiative led by the Department of Health and Human Services that provides a national framework for setting and tracking
public health priorities. Read More >>
This program provides clinicians and
clinical administrators with the operational skills to lead and work effectively in quality improvement and safety initiatives within their health care organizations. Learn More>>
HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS–PAST EVENT: VIOLENCE & HEALTH
Violence permeates our society with consequences for victims, perpetrators, and communities alike. Even as media attention tends to focus on incidents of mass violence, it is the daily burden of violence in its many forms that takes the greater toll.
Get caught up with the event: slides(click on Download
Event), video, and podcast. Access the October PRINTor ONLINEissue.
Today, Universal Health Coverage Day, countries are being
called upon to keep their promise to make health care for all a reality. Achieving universal health coverage is a Sustainable Development Goal of the World Health Organization, adopted by United Nations member states in 2015. A Health Affairs Blog post provides an international perspective on the paradoxes of US health care.
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