Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Workforce
A Policy Prescription for 2010
A Health Reform Odyssey Many would say that the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was predicated on one major factor – the faltering American economy. Accounting for one-sixth of this massive economy (roughly Continue Reading …
Health Benefits of Primary Care
A study from 2007 quantifies the health benefits that primary care provides. For every extra primary care physician added over 4 lives can be saved. In the 1940s and 1950s more than 50 percent of all physicians in the United Continue Reading …
21st Century Medical Education
Medical education is at a crossroads. While the health care workforce requires rapid expansion to accommodate the aging Baby Boomers, medical schools are tasked with inculcating ever-expanding scientific knowledge in the same limited four-year timeframe allotted to physicians of generations Continue Reading …
The Future of Medicine
Primary care physicians – general internists, family practitioners, general pediatricians – are on the verge of extinction. With pressures pushing young physicians toward specialization, a primary care crisis looms. Other workforce shortages, in general surgery and nursing, are also on Continue Reading …
Redesigning Provider Payment
A recent Health Affairs article explored several options and considerations for converting the current system of provider payments into one where all payments are bundled together for a patient’s entire episode of care. Health care providers are compensated by several Continue Reading …