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Avoidable Care Conference

This April, a group of providers, researchers, and other health policy experts will come together to discuss the meaning of avoidable care, and what the medical profession can do to prevent it. Check out the conference website!

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BMJ Highlights Overtreatment

The BMJ has a whole set of articles on overtreatment and the Avoiding Avoidable Care conference, including an excellent video with interviews with Shannon Brownlee, Dr. Vikas Saini of the Lown Institute, and others.

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Shared Decision Making at The Atlantic

Shannon Brownlee & Joe Colucci have a new article on The Atlantic, highlighting the success of Group Health Cooperative's real-world shared decision making pilot. Check it out!

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SNAP to Health

The SNAP to Health initiative, directed by Susan Blumenthal, MD, aims to promote health, reduce food insecurity, and decrease obesity rates in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps.
 
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Publications

Feb 19, 2013 | The Atlantic |
Shannon Brownlee
Jan 11, 2013 | New America Foundation |
Shannon Brownlee
Vanessa Hurley
Jan 2, 2013 | Zócalo Public Square |
Shannon Brownlee
Dec 22, 2012 | The Atlantic |
Shannon Brownlee
Joe Colucci
Nov 13, 2012 | The Atlantic |
Shannon Brownlee
Joe Colucci
Sep 28, 2012 | The Atlantic |
Joe Colucci
Shannon Brownlee
Sep 10, 2012 | TIME Magazine |
Shannon Brownlee
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The New America Foundation’s Health Policy Program is committed to achieving a high-quality, coordinated, and economically sustainable health care system. Building on its successful advocacy for increased access, New America’s Health Policy Program has shifted focus to the next crucial step in reform: improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of America’s health care delivery system. The Health Policy Program is committed not only to discovering best practices in medicine and health promotion, but also to communicating these practices to the broadest possible audience, including policy makers, health care professionals and especially consumers of health care, through scholarly work, convening and original journalism. (Read the full program description)

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Joe Colucci
Monday, May 20, 2013
Our former intern, Catherine Jameson, has just written a fantastic post for Zocalo Public Square on her decision to become a doctor. It's a remarkably human story, and she demonstrates exactly the kind of compassion that doctors need to have for their patients in order to keep the medical system in...
Joe Colucci
Catherine Jameson
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Medicaid in Oregon First, the big one: yesterday afternoon kicked off a flurry of discussion - some of it rather heated - about the most recent paper (ungated version) to come out of Oregon’s Medicaid program. In case you’ve forgotten: a few years ago, Oregon had money to expand Medicaid enrollment...
Catherine Jameson
Thursday, April 11, 2013
In July of 2011, as that year’s class of freshly-minted physicians began its journey through residency, the American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) instituted a 16-hour limit on shift length for first year residents (interns) with the goal of improving intern well-being and patient...
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Health Policy Program Staff

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Program Fellow, Health Policy Program

David Balto is one of the leading experts on healthcare competition and...

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Senior Fellow, Health Policy Program

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. (ret,) is a senior fellow...

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Senior Fellow, Health Policy Program

Shannon Brownlee is the former acting director of the Health Policy Program...

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Program Associate, Health Policy Program

Joe Colucci is a program associate in the Health Policy Program. He assists...

Leif Wellington Haase
Senior Research Fellow, Health Policy Program

Leif Wellington Haase was a California-based senior fellow in the Health...

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Analyst, Health Policy Program

Vanessa Hurley is an analyst for New America’s Health Policy Program. She...

Phillip Longman
Senior Research Fellow, Health Policy Program

Phillip Longman is a Senior Research Fellow with the New America, where he...

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