Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Journal Club
Sharing is Caring
In 2009 Congress passed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which amongst other stimulus and savings measures, allocated roughly $26 billion toward investment into health information technology and incentive programs. Health information exchanges (HIEs) were developed to address the fragmented Continue Reading …
Emergency Docs: No Clue about Costs
Emergency department health care professionals (ED HCPs) have a unique role in providing care to patients with emergency medical conditions without regards for the ability to pay. Though this unfunded mandate to treat can be life-saving, the cost for care Continue Reading …
Does Pay-For-Performance Improve Outcomes?
Throughout the modern history of medicine, health care has been paid for in a “fee-for-service” framework – physicians performed services and physicians were paid for those services accordingly. A common criticism is that fee-for-service incentivizes physicians towards overuse without improving Continue Reading …
Striking a Balance Between Access and Cost
In the 1970s, the freestanding emergency department (FSED) emerged in rural areas to provide access to emergency care for residents living without a nearby acute care hospital. FSEDs offer emergency medical care at locations independent from hospitals. Growth in the Continue Reading …
Analyzing Texas’ Tort Reforms
Malpractice claims are not a popular topic around a physician’s dinner table – in fact, throughout my medical training, I’ve heard peers express unwillingness to pursue certain specialties specifically due those specialties’ high malpractice premiums. And with the annual cost Continue Reading …
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