Accountable care organizations (ACOs), legal partnerships between doctors and hospitals that provide financial incentives to providers for more efficient and better care, will be … Continue reading “Health reform news: accountable care organizations offer promise for cost-savings, greater efficiency”
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Massachusetts’ second and third largest health plans, are exploring a merger that would help them to … Continue reading “HSPH health policy experts discuss implications of proposed Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan merger”
It is time to end the low-fat myth, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition experts told food industry leaders at the seventh annual … Continue reading “Time to stop talking about low-fat, say HSPH nutrition experts”
Leading malaria experts from public and private institutions around the world convened for a three-day conference aimed at discussing and rethinking the future of … Continue reading “Global experts convene for malaria eradication conference”
Last year, Harvard School of Public Health economist William Hsiao was commissioned by the Vermont state legislature to design three options for reforming the … Continue reading “Health reform news: HSPH Prof recommends single-payer health care system for Vermont”
HSPH’s Atul Gawande, a physician and regular contributor to The New Yorker, wrote a piece in the January 24, 2011 issue of the magazine … Continue reading “Health reform news: For the most expensive patients, better preventative care can drastically reduce costs”
A new study co-authored by HSPH research fellow Karen Joynt found that hospitals treating a high number of patients suffering from heart failure—the most … Continue reading “Hospitals treating high number of heart failure patients see better outcomes than low-volume hospitals, but at higher cost for care”
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of … Continue reading “Professor Barry Bloom named AAAS Fellow”
January is National Mentoring Month, an annual media campaign calling on Americans to mentor the estimated 15 million young people who are in need … Continue reading “President Obama calls on Americans to volunteer as mentors”
HSPH’s Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, spoke to the Harvard Gazette about HHI’s response over the past year to the January … Continue reading “One year after Haitian earthquake, HSPH faculty and alumni involved in recovery efforts reflect on progress”