Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Quality
Health Care’s Environmental Footprint
The conversion from paper medical records to electronic medical records should help improve quality of care, reduce duplicative health care spending, and minimize unnecessary visits. But can it save the planet? Researchers from Kaiser Permanente sought to determine the potential Continue Reading …
Measuring physician performance
The Affordable Care Act calls for physician-specific performance measures to be introduced in the coming years. Lessons from Florida and Colorado offer helpful suggestions. In order to improve quality of care, quality measurements and reporting must provide comprehensive and comparable Continue Reading …
Socioeconomic Impact on Universal Care
Countries contemplating national health insurance cannot rely on universal health care to eliminate historical disparities in outcomes suffered by disadvantaged groups. Socioeconomic effects still plague nations such as Canada. The inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and health disparities has been Continue Reading …
Personal Health Records
Personal health records allow the patient to access and interact with their own medical information. However, few physicians incorporate these records into daily practice and many fear that PHRs might threaten patient care. Electronic medical records and other forms of Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2011
Our blueprint for structuring a multi-payer universal health care system in the United States begins with crafting solutions to age-old problems: defining basic benefits, fixing medical malpractice, and redesigning physician payment. Throughout the past two years, Policy Prescriptions has reviewed Continue Reading …