Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Who’s Going Electronic?
As electronic medical records begin to spread across the clinical environment, federal incentives intended to drive uptake among physician practices might be rewarding those who already have made the transition to the digital age. The ability of electronic health records Continue Reading …
Quality over Quantity: Reforming Payment
A new research report from the RAND Corporation and sponsored by the National Quality Forum offers insight into for medical services. A response to the leading trend among health care payers to pay for quality instead of quantity, the lengthy Continue Reading …
Let Him Die!
The CNN/Tea Party Republican debate (September 12, 2011) provided a chilling vision of health care in a world of rugged individualism and unbridled liberty. The moderator, Wolf Blitzer, posed a hypothetical question to Ron Paul, the only physician among the Continue Reading …
Health Policy Webinars
Policy Prescriptions analysts provided a series of webinars for the American Medical Student Association in the fall and winter of 2011-12. Topics covered included the history of the American Health Care system, evidence-based approaches to medical malpractice and pay-for-performance, and Continue Reading …
Time is Money
American physicians waste significantly more time dealing with red-tape associated with the multiple insurance payers in the United States. Compared to Canada – with its single payer – US physicians spend four times as much. Physicians and administrators in the Continue Reading …