In the News: The GOP’s Proposed Health Bill
The release of the Republican’s proposed American Health Care Act has generated several summaries and perspectives in the headlines. This is a sample of what we’ve been reading.
Does Good Health Mean Good Business? New Research Seeks to Find Out
Traditional Medicare is cheaper
OK, you knew that already. But what are the implications for access to care?
Increasing evidence that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work
In Mexico, not only did a sugar-sweetened beverage tax work, it appears to be working more as time goes on.
Insurance Market Stability: The High-Deductible Problem
A number of solutions have been proposed to help lower costs and improve access to care by attracting healthier people to risk pools. Barbara Markham Smith of Health Management Associates, an AcademyHealth Organizational Affiliate, shares her thoughts on the role of high-deductibles in the instability of the Marketplaces.
Adverse Drug Events
Paul Wallace Named Executive Editor of AcademyHealth’s Open Access Journal eGEMs
A national leader in population health research and the use of evidence to improve health care, Dr. Wallace was also an early advocate for the use of electronic health data for delivery system transformation and brings decades of experience to his new role.
Population health can be improved with proper planning and honest assessments
It can sometimes feel like there's nothing we can do to improve population health. That's just not true.
Working Together to Modernize Health Care
AcademyHealth joins an alliance aimed at achieving large-scale connected integration, and transforming the health sector into a health system.