PPACA authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make grants for communities to improve public health in a variety of creative ways. The following is taken from the CDC website: The Community Transformation Grants (CTG) program will support community-level efforts to reduce chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. [...]
Evidence-Based Value Analysis vs. The Inefficient Containment of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Costs Colleen Tallant Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), medical arenas are challenged to implement improvements in process flows, safety for patients, and costs. The reduction of costs will be particularly cumbersome, simply because health care budgets are so intricate. [...]
Surgical Relief for Diabetes Type II Patients by Colleen Tallant A March 26th article of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), in addition to many other international reports, presented weight-loss surgery as the now preferred solution to Diabetes Type II. For the past two years in Rome, 60 obese patients who have struggled [...]
Americans Benefit when the Affordable Health Care Act Prohibits Lifetime Limitations By Caryn Sever My close friend, let’s call him John Doe, has diabetes. When he was 5 years old he caught a virus called coxsackie which killed his pancreas rendering him unable to manufacture insulin. Throughout the years he maintained a mild control of [...]
On February 15, 2012 our Health Policy Fellow and our Health Policy Graduate Student Assistant attended a preview of the PBS Special “US Health Care: The Good News” followed by a panel of experts discussing health policy. Here is their commentary from the event. Quality Care for Less Money: Can Regional Success Go National? (Commentary [...]
Want Affordable Health Care? Get to the Gym by Colleen Tallant Health Care Reform has been primarily focused on the changes that need to occur within healthcare systems. The three part aim of increased health care quality, better health and reduction in costs has been a challenge for this country. The Cleveland Clinic has [...]
Using Online Communities to Discuss Health Care and Reform By Caryn Sever Over the last five years, the social networking phenomenon has swept the globe. Users have direct access, in live time to most people who participate in these online communities. It is not surprising then, that many have taken to the web with information [...]
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