In October 2016, Nancy Keating and Haiden Huskamp were two of eleven participants invited to participate in the HMS Female Leaders in Science Workshop.
Ateev Mehrotra and coauthors from RAND and CalPERS published a Health Affairs article on direct-to-consumer telehealth, in which a patient directly accesses a medical professional through phone or video.
Each year, the Association of American Physicians recognizes physician scientists who have attained excellence in the pursuit of medical knowledge and the advancement of basic and clinical sciences and their application to clinical medicine through experimentation and discovery.
In a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Anupam Jena, Joseph Newhouse, Alan Zaslavsky and coauthors from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that Medicare patients treated by doctors that ordered more tests and procedures had no better mortality and readmission rates than lower-spending doctors.
Harvard health policy student along with nine other Harvard and MIT economics students have put together a website featuring an interactive map with information on where in the U.S. doctors with training from the seven affected countries from President Trump’s travel ban practice medicine.
On March 2, 2017, Bruce Landon and Michael McWilliams published Perspective pieces in the New England Journal of Medicine that tackle payment systems in health care—specifically, problems inherent in current thinking about health care spending, and different ways of looking at the issues.
Michael Chernew, guest lecturer at the Essentials of the Profession class, is speaking animatedly to two hundred medical and dental students about health insurance benefit design, using the experiences of Harvard post-docs as an example.
The United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic that has been aggravated by expanded use of the drug fentanyl—an extremely potent, unregulated drug often added to heroin, ecstasy, and fake OxyContin.
Opioid use is rising in the United States, and patients who receive treatment from doctors prescribing more of it are 30 percent more likely to become long-term opioid users, according to new research from Anupam Jena and coauthors.
The American Heart Association’s Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research has awarded Sharon-Lise Normand the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented at their annual meeting in April 2017.
