On October 15, a panel of experts discussed the law's origins, impacts and potential future in a free online University of Michigan (U-M) event. Watch the replay of the event below.
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Nominations are now open for the annual IHPI Impact Accelerator Award. The award recognizes research that addresses pressing questions about health or healthcare quality, safety, equity, and affordability and has informed health policy and practice.
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Deadline: October 30, 2020 | 5:00 p.m.
Do you share an interest in studying and innovating new approaches to workforce diversity in the healthcare sector? Please consider joining one of three IHPI Workforce Diversity in Healthcare workgroups: - Recruitment & Retention
- Career Advancement/Leadership Development
- Inequities in Care Delivery
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Mi-COVID19 data is voluntarily collected from 25+ hospitals across Michigan. At each hospital, demographic data is entered for all patients tested for or charged with a discharge code for COVID-19. Depending on the number of cases per hospital, a subset of these receive a detailed abstraction of clinical information, including but not limited to medical history, testing data, laboratory information, vital signs, treatments/therapies, discharge information, and 60-day outcomes.
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Deadline: December 1, 2020
University of Michigan researchers can now apply for the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) Policy Fellowship at U-M. The Policy Fellowship joins selected health services researchers, state policy makers, and leaders in the nonprofit sector over four months to learn from health care experts and from each other.
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IHPI members Justin Dimick, M.D., M.P.H., professor of surgery, and Christopher Friese, Ph.D., R.N., AOCN, FAAN, professor of nursing, along with three other U-M faculty members join a select group of fewer than 60 current, emeritus, and living former U-M faculty in the National Academy of Medicine, including 18 IHPI members.
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John Burkhardt, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and learning health sciences at U-M Medical School, discusses how his Fulbright Scholar award will impact his future work at Michigan Medicine.
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November 18, 2020 | 4:00--- 5:00 PM
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A new National Poll on Healthy Aging report authored by Antoinette Coe, Ph.D., PharmD, and Karen Farris, Ph.D., M.P.A., shows that most people over 50 haven't connected with a pharmacist to check for potential clashes among their prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, and supplements, or the potential to save money by switching to lower-cost options.
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Months after they first experienced COVID-19 symptoms, 1 in 4 Michigan residents with a confirmed case of coronavirus had not fully recovered from the illness, according to a new study led by Nancy Fleischer, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of public health, that seeks to document Michiganders' experiences with the novel coronavirus.
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The number of cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in the U.S. has begun to rise after the curve was twice "flattened" by efforts to prevent the spread. Now that we know more about the coronavirus, this is the time to stay the course to prevent infections and buy time until vaccines are ready, says Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., a medical historian who has studied past pandemics.
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A new study published in Health Affairs and led by Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, looked at private insurer payments and out-of-pocket spending on 526 orphan drugs. Mean annual out-of-pocket spending for orphan drugs rose from $486 to $866 and was higher for pediatric patients than adults.
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A new study published by senior author Lona Mody, M.D., M.Sc., professor of internal medicine, details how three Michigan nursing homes limited the spread of the coronavirus within their walls after the first cases were diagnosed in that early peak state.
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