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Millions harmed each year from unsafe medical care
For immediate release: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Boston, MA — More than 43 million people are injured worldwide each year due to unsafe medical care, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). These…
Doctor-patient communication
Coverage on WBUR's CommonHealth, September 13, 2013, by HSPH's Alicair Peltonen
Predicting countries' likelihood of achieving universal health care
September 13, 2013 -- Countries that are wealthy, have less income inequality, and whose citizens have the highest educational levels are the most likely to develop universal health care systems, according to new research from Harvard School of…
Emerging economies look to Britain’s National Health Service as model
Although Britain’s National Health Service has come under fire in that country for its failings, emerging economies are finding much to emulate in the NHS as they look to improve their own. The main reason is that the…
Medicaid expansion faces challenges as January 1 deadline looms
July 24, 2013 — With just months remaining before the January 1, 2014 rollout of changes to the Medicaid program that will expand health care coverage to as many as 10-20 million Americans, substantial implementation challenges remain —…
Doctors, hospitals increasing use of electronic health records
Hospitals nearly tripled their use of electronic health records (EHR) systems between 2010 and 2012, according to a new study co-authored by [[Ashish Jha]] of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The authors found that 44% of hospitals…
New strategies needed to curb costs among expensive Medicare patients
Preventable emergency room visits and hospitalizations represent only a small part of the health costs among Medicare patients with the highest expenses, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women’s…
Why Public Health? Tzipi Strauss
June 2013 -- In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Tzipi Strauss, MD, SM ’13, Health Care Management, is…
Applying global health lessons to U.S. health care
May 17, 2013 — The conversation around health care policy in the United States, mired as it is in partisan bickering, has gone off course from what should be its larger goal — building the foundation of a…
Regulations needed to compel safer hospital practices
Patient safety expert Lucian Leape has called for the creation of a federal agency to compel safer hospital practices. He thinks regulation is the only way to effectively reduce the avoidable harm that takes place in the nation’s…