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

**Tuesday, January 28, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICARE

Improvement In Chronic Disease Outcomes For Medicare Beneficiaries Has
Stalled-Where Do We Go From Here?

By Jackson Williams

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must keep trying to
either prove or rule out the ability to effectively coordinate care in
fee-for-service Medicare. Read More >>

GRANTWATCH

The Five Most-Read GrantWatch Blog Posts Of 2019

By Lee-Lee Prina

See which are the top-five blog posts of 2019 in GrantWatch, our series
on health philanthropy. This year, blog posts on a variety of topics
were popular. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY

Primary Care Physicians' Role In Coordinating Medical And
Health-Related Social Needs In Eleven Countries

By Michelle M. Doty, Roosa Tikkanen, Arnav Shah, and Eric C. Schneider

Primary care physicians are increasingly tasked with coordinating
services delivered not just by specialists and hospitals but also by
home care professionals and social service agencies. To inform efforts
to improve care coordination, the 2019 Commonwealth Fund International
Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians queried primary care
physicians in eleven high-income countries about their ability to
coordinate patients' medical care with specialists, across settings of
care, and with social service providers. Read More >>

The Effect Of Home-Based Hypertension Screening On Blood Pressure Change
Over Time In South Africa

By Nikkil Sudharsanan, Simiao Chen, Michael Garber, Till Bärnighausen,
and Pascal Geldsetzer

There is considerable policy interest in home-based screening campaigns
for hypertension in many low- and middle-income countries. Nikkil
Sudharsanan and coauthors evaluated the real-world impact of home-based
hypertension screening on two-year change in blood pressure in a
nationally representative cohort of South African adults. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-In Remembrance

With sadness, we note that Harvard Business School professor and
innovation scholar Clayton Christensen passed away on January 23 at the
age of 67.

Over the years, Christensen's work has been featured in Health
Affairs:

March 2007
Interview
Disruptive Innovation: Can Health Care Learn From Other Industries? A
Conversation With Clayton M. Christensen

With Mark D. Smith

September/October 2008
Perspective
Disruptive Innovation In Health Care Delivery: A Framework For
Business-Model Innovation

Jason Hwang and Clayton M. Christensen

June 2012
Blog
Integration Shown To Reduce Excess Referrals

Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Clayton Christensen

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