Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: Contrition, Reconciliation, and Collaboration
Like the nation as a whole, organized medicine in the United States carries a legacy of racial bias and segregation that must acknowledged and understood. For more than 100 years, many state and local medical societies openly discriminated against black Continue Reading …
Electronic Medical Records
Health information technology has astounding potential to improve the delivery and management of health care by improving quality, streamlining clinical practice, and providing portability of medical data. However, estimates of physician uptake of electronic medical records remains low – estimates Continue Reading …
The Value of Quality
Quality in health care has been hailed as one of the goals of health care reform ever since “Crossing the Quality Chasm” brought the issue into public focus. Groups of large employers, such as the Leapfrog Group, have utilized hospital Continue Reading …
America’s Oral Health
Twice as many Americans like dental coverage compared to medical coverage highlighting a neglected aspect of our health care system.
Improvements in Health for Uninsured Adults after obtaining Medicare
This quasi-experimental study of self-reported health status of uninsured near-elderly (55-64 years) adults demonstrated the striking positive effect of achieving Medicare eligibility at age 65. Throughout life there is a natural decline in health status and function, on average, for Continue Reading …