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Technology crucial to give patients a "medical home"
September 20, 2011 -- HSPH Expert Outlines Key Ways to Improve Health Care Delivery Of the many problems facing health care in the United States, critics say one of the biggest is that patient care isn’t well coordinated. It’s…
Why IS health care reform so elusive?
[ Fall 2011 ] Interview with John McDonough John McDonough, HSPH professor of the practice of public health, was a senior adviser on the U.S. Senate committee responsible for developing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the…
Saving lives in the heat of battle
[ Fall 2011 ] Christian Benjamin, MD, MPH ’96 and Michael McCarten, DO, MPH ’99 are delivering evidence-based military medicine in Afghanistan Medics roll a badly wounded U.S. soldier into the military hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He has…
Teaching leadership to leaders
[ Fall 2011 ] The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative teaches seasoned professionals how to handle unprecedented disasters. At the World Trade Center on 9/11, the New York Fire Department set up a command center at the bottom of…
A launchpad for leaders
[ Fall 2011 ] When Roy Wade was a medical resident at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, one patient in the pediatric clinic he was working in really stuck with him: a 16-year-old girl with a deeply troubled…
U.S. must focus health resources on high-value care to control rising health care spending
Public policy officials grappling with the nation’s budget deficit should address the health care system’s inefficient use of expensive medical technology and interventions that may provide little clinical benefit to patients, two Harvard economists said in a paper…
Harvard School of Public Health receives $14.1 million grant to reduce maternal, infant deaths in India
Four-Year Study to Test Effectiveness of WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist For immediate release: July 26, 2011 Boston, MA – Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has been awarded a $14.1 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda…
Medicaid increases use of health care, decreases financial strain, and improves health for recipients
For immediate release: July 7, 2011 Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Providence Health & Services have found that expanding low income adults’…
Patients at small, isolated, rural hospitals in U.S. more likely to receive lower quality of care compared with other hospitals
For immediate release: July 5, 2011 In the first national study to examine care at critical access hospitals (CAHs) in rural areas of the U.S., Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that CAHs have fewer clinical…
Support for Massachusetts landmark health reform law rises in 2011
Most Don’t Think Law is Main Reason for Rising Health Care Costs For immediate release: June 5, 2011 A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds 63% of Massachusetts residents support…
