This policy watch examines state-by-state school vaccine requirements and exemptions, including recent policy changes to them and the extent to which they may affect vaccination rates.
CMS’ new ACCESS model, slated to begin on July 1, aims to shift traditional Medicare fee-for-service toward value-based care by tying payments to patient outcomes and encouraging tech-enabled, preventive care. Experts say it could benefit digitally mature, value-focused providers first, but its overall success will hinge on clear metrics, better data sharing and sustained participation….
This issue brief provides data on immigrants’ role in the U.S. health care workforce, including within key industries such as direct long-term care and the hospital workforce.
A new National Academies committee study report, A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health, was co-chaired by Alina Salganicoff, senior vice president and director of women’s health policy. The report finds that while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made important contributions that have led to…More
That is the title of a new publication with co-authors Joshua T. Cohen, Louis P. Garrison, Dana A. Goldman, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joshua Krieger, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Peter J. Neumann, Charles E. Phelps, Melanie D. Whittington and Richard Willke. This consensus paper aims to provide researchers with a user guide for estimating broader societal value…
Robotics has already revolutionized fields like orthopedics and laparoscopic surgery. Endovascular care deserves the same leap forward. The technology exists. The evidence is strong. The challenge now is adoption. The post When Innovation Outpaces Adoption, Patients Pay the Price appeared first on MedCity News.
Engagement still matters. But the more important question is whether the intervention respects the human nervous system of the person on the receiving end. The post Digital Health Keeps Measuring Engagement While Ignoring Tolerability appeared first on MedCity News.
Aldeyra said the FDA did not ask for another clinical trial for reproxalap in dry eye disease, but the drug’s mixed record in clinical testing warrants exploration about the reasons for failure, which could identify the appropriate patients for the eye drop. AbbVie holds an option to collaborate on commercialization of reproxalap. The post ‘Lack…
What are the key elements for reporting your objective, attributes, experimental design, survey design, data collection process, econometric analysis, and results? A paper by Ride et al. (2024) conducted a Delphi Panel expert elicitation survey to create the DIRECT checklist for discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies in health. The checklist is pasted below. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40273-024-01431-6 If…
Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and got out. Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of…