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  Although the U.S. has the highest health care prices in the world, the specific mechanisms commonly used by other countries to set and update prices are often overlooked, with a tendency to favor strategies such as reducing the use of fee-for-service reimbursement. Many U.S. health policymakers recognize that fee-for-service models incentivize physicians and health systems… Read more

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  Hastings Center Scholar on How Some Countries Control Health Spending

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• Principal investigator: Diane M. KorngiebelFunder: National Institutes of Health/National Human Genome Research Institute; National Institutes of Health/Office of the Director Big Data in health care is growing, and it is coming from an increasing number of sources, including electronic health records, patient monitors and physical activity trackers, and smartphone applications. This data collection is used… Read more

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  Big Data in Health Care: Building an Ethics Framework for Biomedical Data Modeling

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  The Covid-19 pandemic continues to test and occasionally overwhelm health care institutions. Many practitioners may face the ethically challenging scenario of having to ration ventilators while triaging patients in “crisis care.” Ventilator shortages have led to innovative ventilator design “hacks.” Are these improvised ventilators ethical?

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  Hacking Ventilators in a Pandemic

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  The United States leads the world in coronavirus cases and deaths. Although many people have called out the inadequacies of our health care system, Covid-19 has exposed the most significant shortcomings. The need for change can no longer be ignored. Here are three lessons from this pandemic that should be leveraged for change.

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  Cracks in the System: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic

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  The American Pharmacists Association Foundation recognized Hastings Center's Rosemary Gibson with a 2019 Pinnacle Award for career achievement on Monday, September 16.  Gibson, a senior advisor at The Hastings Center, is the author most recently of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine. The book chronicles the shift to China as a… Read more

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  Hastings Center’s Rosemary Gibson Honored for Enhancing Health Care Quality

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  On May 7, New York City officials unveiled details of NYC Care, a new  program in the nation’s largest public health system that aims to improve health care access for about 300,000 low-income New Yorkers who are ineligible for insurance because of their immigration status. The initiative, announced in January, reflects lessons from a 2016-2017… Read more

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  New York City Initiative to Cover the Uninsured Reflects Hastings Research, Recommendations

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  There is broad support for building health care systems that are patient centered, seen as a means of improving health outcomes and as morally worthy in itself. But the concept of patient-centered care has increasingly merged with the concept of patients as consumers, which “is conceptually confused and potentially harmful,” write Michael K. Gusmano, a… Read more

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  Should Patients Be Considered Consumers? Hastings Scholars Say, No.

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  Does a new medicine or diagnostic test work? Is it safe? Should the government approve it and insurers pay for it? The answers are not as straightforward as they may seem – and the reasons are the subject of a new book by Karen J. Maschke, a research scholar at The Hastings Center, and Michael… Read more

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  Debating Modern Medical Technologies: The Politics of Safety, Effectiveness, and Patient Access

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  A long-anticipated policy change proposed by the Trump administration that would count the use of many federally-subsidized programs against immigrants currently eligible to use them threatens public health and would undermine ethical practice in health professions and systems. The policy would expand the definition of a public charge, someone likely to become dependent on government… Read more

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  Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule

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  In an earlier piece, “Trumping Drug Costs,” I looked at out-of-pocket costs as the pivotal issue with drugs. They can be a particularly heavy burden on the elderly, taking money from their savings and a large bite of their Social Security income. Along the way, I also looked at out-of-pocket medical costs in Europe–called “cost… Read more

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  A Single-Payer Bubble?

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