Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Affordability & Delivery System
Embracing the Electronic Era
Medicine lags behind many other industries in the transition to the electronic era. While high-tech advances like CAT scans and MRI machines take advantage of computerization, many physicians still rely on paper and pen to document patient conditions and treatment Continue Reading …
The French Connection
The French health care system is viewed by some as the best in the world; multiple payers combine to provide universal care for all of France’s legal residents under the principle of social solidarity. At the turn of the millennium, Continue Reading …
Don’t Tax my ‘Lac
Health economists have long argued that the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) benefits skews an already imperfect health insurance market. Such tax free benefits encourage the maximization of expenditures on health insurance coverage in exchange for lower take 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 …
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