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Adapting to Change: Health Care Safety Net Services and Health Care Reform
Health Care Symposium 1:30–4:30 PM Danto Auditorium (in the Cardiovascular Center on the University of Michigan campus) 11/01/2010 Related blog post by Marianne Udow-Phillips: The Safety Net and Health Care Reform The health care safety net will continue to be a vital component of the overall health care system as the environment changes under health reform. This symposium, Adapting to …
Read more >Patient Centered Medical Home: Obstacles and Opportunities
Health Care Symposium 1:30–5:00 pm Forum Hall, University of Michigan Palmer Commons Patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a model of care delivery that includes an ongoing relationship between provider team and patient, using a comprehensive approach to coordination of care. Today, numerous medical organizations have adopted the principles of PCMH, and purchasers of health care services are interested in the …
Read more >Healthcare Policy and Research: Can We Speak the Same Language?
Health Policy Symposium 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. (with optional informal session 2 – 4 p.m.) University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex (NCRC) Ann Arbor, Michigan How can researchers, policy-makers, and practice leaders work together more effectively to effect real world change? This one-day symposium brought together prominent state and national policy-makers, health services researchers, and funders to explore …
Read more >Massachusetts Comes to Michigan: Lessons about Health Care Reform from Business Leaders
Lessons about Health Care Reform from Business Leaders 2013 Health Care Symposium February 11, 2013 4:00–5:30 p.m. Walter and Leonore Annenberg Auditorium 1120 Weill Hall at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 735 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan No registration necessary. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation …
Read more >Hearsay or Fact: A Symposium on the Communication of the Affordable Care Act
Health Reform Symposium 1:00–5:00 p.m. Michigan League Ballroom University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Free and open to the public View the policy panel webcast replay here and the journalism panel webcast replay here. The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), the Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI) and …
Read more >#MiACA symposium moves beyond the numbers
Numbers have become a prominent part of the Affordable Care Act vocabulary and used often to explain how the law is changing the ways health care is purchased, accessed and delivered. Just recently, media reported that more than 600,000 Michiganders had enrolled in the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan’s expanded Medicaid program, during the program’s first year of operation. The number …
Read more >After two years, hard to call ACA anything but a success
Editor’s Note: This column was published in Bridge Magazine. It is hard to believe that as the Affordable Care Act turns five on March 23, it continues to be as controversial as it was on day one. The U.S. House of Representatives has taken 56 votes to repeal all or some of the landmark health care reform law, most recently …
Read more >How personal advocacy influences autism policy
Co-authors Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation Dr. John F. Greden, founding chair of the National Network of Depression Centers and executive director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center It will take leaders like Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, who are willing to speak up about their personal journey, to move public policy in …
Read more >Creating a Learning Health State in Michigan: Working Together to Change Health Care in our State
Watch the archived event webcast here. The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation brought together an assembly of stakeholders—patients, clinicians, researchers, public health professionals and payers—in Lansing, Mich., to create an action plan to innovatively and collaboratively tackle challenges affecting the health of the people of Michigan by continuous learning and improvement. Seven “actionable” theme groups met with plans to …
Read more >We must save lives by stopping this silent killer
Co-authors Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation Theodore J. Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System; Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Today in the United States, more than half of all hospital deaths are from something that most people have never heard of: …
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