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New Publications
June 2009
Addressing Health Care Market Reform Through an
Insurance Exchange: Essential Policy Components, the
Public Plan Option, and Other Issues to Consider
Murray Ross and Paul Fronstin, EBRI Issue Brief
April 2009
Change The Microenvironment
Francis J. Crosson, The Commonwealth Fund, Commentary
January 2009
Patient-Centered Care and the Health Care Reform Agenda -
A Roundtable Discussion
Paul Wallace, Cindy Ehnes, David Lansky, Ruth Liu, Thomas Lorentzen, Tom Rundall, Josh Seidman, Wells Shoemaker, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA.
Announcements
May 2009
Francis J. (Jay) Crosson, MD Named Vice-Chair of MedPac
Events
March 27, 2009
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy was proud to be a sponsor of the Alliance for Health Reform Briefing: "Reforming the Health Care Delivery System: A Team Approach"
Health Care Reform Now
Presentation by George Halvorson
Video
Slides
Collaborative Cardiac Care Service: Teams + Technology = Quality
Presentation by Susan Kuca and Jon Rasmussen
Video - Kuca
Video - Rasmussen
Slides
News
February 2008
IHP
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Brief commentaries on select health policy actions, publications, and conferences/meetings.
June 17, 2009
Meaningful Use of Health IT
The incentive, grant, and loan programs of the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Recovery (HITECH) Act —approximately $35 billion total outlays and over $19 billion net spending on health IT —will certainly spur higher levels of health IT adoption. A major challenge, however, is to have spending be put to good use so the country gets the most effective health IT supported with taxpayer dollars. On June 16, the HIT Policy Committee, a federal advisory committee advising the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, released a proposed framework and definition of meaningful use of electronic health records for public comment. (more)
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