In April 2017, Alan Zaslavsky was the inaugural speaker for the Will Manning Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago’s Center for Health and the Social Sciences.
Older is wiser, or so the saying goes. But senior author Bapu Jena, along with Alan Zaslavsky and Joseph Newhouse, find that older general internists have higher rates of mortality when compared with their younger counterparts.
In a paper published in the American Journal of Health Economics, Tim Layton and Tom McGuire laid out potential changes that could be made to the ACA Marketplaces to protect against high-cost cases.
In the Journal of theNational Cancer Institute, Nancy Keating wrote an editorial about the role of physicians in explaining area-level variations in health care spending.
Laura Hatfield, who began her appointment at HCP as an assistant professor in 2011, was promoted to associate professor of health care policy (biostatistics) in April 2017.
The Affordable Care Act faces an uncertain future. With the Republicans again seeking to push through a potential new health law, Joseph Newhouse and Michael Chernew spoke at an HMS Talk at 12 to discuss the state of health care today and the potential directions the Republicans (and future leaders) might take.
In late 2016, David Grabowski moderated a AcademyHealth Research Insights meeting of federal policymakers and researchers on post-acute and chronic care, the results of which were published in an issue brief titled: Post-Acute Care and Beyond: Responding to the Growing Need for Chronic Care and via a blog post.
The annual meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society (IBS) is the largest annual meeting of biostatisticians in North America. Three HCP faculty were invited to speak on data science.
Sharon-Lise Normand, along with colleagues from Finland, China, the U.K., and Stanford, will be conducting a study, the details of which were published in BMC Psychiatry, about the use of coercive force—e.g., physical restraint and forced injection—in psychiatric hospitals for patients with schizophrenia.
