Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Metrics for Doctors and Patients
Electronic health records can improve processes of care as well as real health outcomes for diabetic patients. However, it is critical that patients themselves are held accountable for their own health and given the tools to do so. The ability Continue Reading …
[Anecdotes] Freedom of Speech is License to Kill
Commentary writer Ken Paulson makes a cogent argument that tobacco manufacturers should not be compelled to display graphic warnings on cigarette packages to indicate tobacco’s toxic properties (“Column: Cigarette makers have freedom not to speak“). Since the 1960s, evidence of the deadly effects Continue Reading …
The Essentials
Under the direction of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), individuals and small businesses are to receive a certain package of diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic services and products that are defined as “essential” by the Department Continue Reading …
An Optimal Physician Payment System
The researchers at Harvard have really done it this time! Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more exciting, they release a study on…typology. Ty-pol-o-gy: [tahy-pol-uh-jee] noun. a systematic classification or study of types. Harvard researchers classified ‘types’ in Continue Reading …
[Anecdotes] CLASS Cancelled
The Obama Administration has recently come to the conclusion that the CLASS Act, a minor stand-alone component of the Affordable Care Act, is unsustainable in its current form. The decision to stop implementation of the CLASS Act is a decision Continue Reading …