Medicare's Transitional Care Management aims to ease patients' adjustment home after hospital or nursing home discharge; a JAMA Health Forum study investigates follow-up care access. hcp.hms.harvard.edu/news/does-medi…

I spoke to Samantha Fields NPR Marketplace about the new federal rule mandating staff levels in nursing homes. Although the rule is far from perfect, 'This is the biggest reform in nursing home policy in decades.”
marketplace.org/2024/04/24/new…

👏🏥📊This week,Harvard Medical School HCP Faculty members Zirui Song and José Zubizarreta presented on private equity in healthcare delivery and causal inference in observational studies at National Academies Spring Board on Health Care Services Meeting in Washington DC. #healthcare#Causalinference

👉Save the Date! In the Trenches Speaker Series
🩺David Rind, MD of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) presenting:
'ICER and the US Health System'

🗓️Wednesday, May 8th
⏰ 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM EST
Harvard Medical School ICER David Rind

Health care policy experts say pandemic-era rules that promoted telemedicine should be made permanent to protect gains in quality of care and greater access for millions of patients bit.ly/4cWDmCt

Study by Harvard Medical School HCP's Zirui Song finds patients in PE-owned hospitals experience more adverse events. Is profit putting patients at risk? #healthcare #privateequity

Telemedicine use expanded during COVID, but with key rules expiring soon, patients could lose access to care. HCP Prof. Ateev Mehrotra Ateev Mehrotra discusses a new Health Affairs study on telemedicine's impact & why keeping these rules is vital.
Harvard Medical School
hcp.hms.harvard.edu/news/telemedic…

This #EarthDay , explore the connections between the health of the planet and the health of its inhabitants bit.ly/3xUvFMN

🚨Final nursing home minimum staffing rule will be released later today!
Preview: '...mandate requires that all nursing homes...provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day, including defined periods from RNs and from NAs.'
cnn.com/2024/04/22/pol…

New in today's @health_affairs:'The Impact Of Telemedicine On Utilization, Spending, And Quality, 2019–22' by Ateev Mehrotra, carter nakamoto and coauthors.
Read the full article here:
healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

Join HCP this Thursday, April 18 for the In the Trenches Seminar Series! Speaker Dr. Thomas Lee, Founder and CEO of Galileo, presents: 'Redesigning Care within Complex Payer Environments.'
Harvard Medical School

Study in JAMA Network Open by Felippe Marcondes, MD MPH Harvard Medical School HCP's Sharon-Lise Normand, Benjamin Lê Cook, Haiden Huskamp, Alisa Busch, Ateev Mehrotra, Michael L. Barnett, @loriuscherpines & Jorge A Rodriguez MD explores racial disparities in telemedicine use.
Read here: hcp.hms.harvard.edu/news/unveiling…

Delighted to have HMS HCP Joe Newhouse with us today at BSPH / HPM

🎉🏥 Don't miss out on the In the Trenches Seminars at HCP! Featuring special guests Dr. Thomas Lee of Galileo on April 18th, and Dr. David Rind from ICER on May 8th! 🩺David Rind ICER Harvard Medical School

🚨The financial sector is increasingly involved in US healthcare. Physicians, patients, and the public deserve to know about the corporate tactics used for profits. In NEJM, Zirui Song HMS HCP and I describe one tactic – SPACs

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New in NEJM by Harvard Medical School's Zirui Song &
Nishu Uppal:
'Corporate Medicine 2.0 — Special Purpose Acquisition Companies in the United States'

Read 👉www-nejm-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Are Home Health Agency Star Ratings Accurate?
New study in JAMA Network Open by HCP's Amanda Chen and David Grabowski finds discrepancies between reported and objective measures of care quality. 🏥📊
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Thank you to Anupam Jena for a fantastic Lucy Squire presentation this morning on “Random Acts of Medicine” at #AUR24 ! Dr. Novelline & all of us truly enjoyed it! AUR Harvard Medical School MassGeneral Medicine

Tomorrow: Join HCP for the Design Experimental and Non-Experimental Studies Seminar Series!
Guest speaker Prof. Phillip Heiler (Aarhus, Harvard) presents: “Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Bounds under Sample Selection.” 📊 #dataanalysis
Harvard Department of Economics Harvard Medical School
Aarhus University

Excellent thought provoking Lucy Squire lecture at #AUR24 by Anupam Jena. Fascinating natural experiments ranging from hospital mortality during marathons and likelihood of a traffic ticket when the officer shares your first name.