Please join the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on October 3 from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET for a First Friday Google+ Hangout. Panelists will discuss a new approach to medical education in which much basic content is delivered online, thus freeing up classroom time for more interactive sessions and learning what really “sticks” with students.
PCORI will convene a public forum on its proposed process for peer review and public release of its primary research findings. PCORI is receiving public comments on the proposed process through Friday, November 7, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Please join Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health, the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Consumer Reports, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, patient advocates, and government leaders for the first in a series of discussions about outpatient health care quality metrics and the information available to and used by consumers.
Health care costs are having real impacts on patients’ and consumers’ budgets across the country. Families have seen their health insurance premiums increased by almost 130 percent in the past decade while their out-of-pocket spending has risen by almost 80 percent.
Please join us for an evening of appreciation as the Meals on Wheels Association of America recognizes Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Congressman Tom Petri (R-WI) for their decades of service, leadership and unwavering support for more than 5,000 Meals on Wheels programs and the millions of seniors they serve.
Over the years, Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Tom Petri have stood by our nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and want to honor these steadfast champions who join us in the belief that no senior should go hungry.
In 2010, many political analysts and journalists cited the debate over, and enactment of, the Affordable Care Act (often called "Obamacare") as one factor that helped spark the conservative Tea Party movement and the Republican takeover of the House in that year's Midterm Elections. Four years later, the law's major coverage provisions have taken effect, resulting in new health coverage for millions of Americans, but public opinion on the law remains deeply divided along partisan lines, with more viewing it negatively than positively.
Call for Applications: 2015 Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) is a cooperative agreement between the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Federal grants of $50,000 per year for up to five years are awarded through the program to support community-based child health projects that improve the health status of mothers, infants, children, and adolescents by increasing their access to health services.
If you were to redesign Medicare without spending more money, what would you keep and what would you change? A new report on a Center for Healthcare Decisions program provides insight into the public’s willingness to restructure Medicare in the face of tightening budget constraints. Using an interactive, computer-based system, program participants faced the challenge of making Medicare more responsive to the needs of current and future beneficiaries.
Our country currently faces a physician workforce shortage. Factors that contribute to our current challenge are numerous, and are only compounded by decades of neglect, misalignment of priorities and resources in medical education, and the inherent financial interest and competition between parties in the health care industry.
In our history, we have yet to make an effort to establish a workforce policy that aligns human and financial resources with desired goals. Instead, we have relied on local and community economic forces to make these decisions on our behalf.
On September 16, chief executives from some of the nation’s largest companies and BPC will release a groundbreaking report that shares the companies’ most successful strategies for addressing the nation’s most pressing health care challenges. The report also includes a call to employers to join their commitment to improve the health and wellness of individuals, improve the health of communities, and improve the health care system.
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