Commentary maps India’s effort to move health technology assessments into state action
A 2026 commentary documents India’s ADOPT programme, which uses training, stakeholder sessions and regional centres to connect health technology assessments ...
Tag: Health Policy
Medicaid work requirements may burden patients, physicians and safety-net hospitals
A New England Journal of Medicine Perspective projects that 2027 Medicaid work requirements could increase clinician paperwork, threaten safety-net finances ...
Nursing homes still deny buprenorphine after federal prescribing rules changed
A 2026 perspective documents how stigma, regulatory confusion and operational pressures can continue to restrict buprenorphine access at skilled-nursing facilities ...
Healthcare implementation studies still struggle to establish value for money
A systematic review of 22 healthcare implementation studies found that 16 measured costs without linking them to health or effectiveness ...
Australia’s digital health workforce needs readiness, not more frameworks
An Australian perspective argues that the next challenge is measuring whether health professionals can safely and ethically apply digital capabilities ...
Price Transparency Is Not the Same as Affordability and Adherence
An editorial reviewing evidence on real-time benefit tools argues that patient-specific price information can support clinical decisions but does not ...
Viewpoint Proposes Five Research Priorities for Rural Healthcare
A 2026 policy viewpoint synthesizes existing evidence and stakeholder experience to propose five research priorities for adapting healthcare, technology, infrastructure ...
Inside Medicare’s Physician Payment Reform Illusion of Inaction
A firsthand account of Medicare payment reform shows how public inaction can conceal intensive legislative work, persistent budget constraints and ...
Anti-DEI Policies Fuel Moral Distress Among Physicians
A perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine links the dismantling of DEI programs to physician moral distress and ...
Why Cancer Peer Support Is Poised to Become a Cornerstone of Oncology Care
An international working group argues that cancer peer support must be professionalized in structure, rigorously evaluated, and integrated into policy ...
India Pays Hospitals to Get Accredited, But Most Are Not Buying It
A new review of India's AB-PMJAY accreditation-based incentive policy finds that paying hospitals premiums for quality certification has attracted few ...
Urgent Care Centers Cut Low-Acuity Emergency Department Visits by Up to 42 Percent in Italian Region
A real-world evaluation in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region found that community-based urgent care centers reduced low-acuity emergency department visits by up ...
Stopping Treatment Safely Could Save Millions in Leukemia Care, Bulgarian Model Shows
A 20-year Markov modeling study from Bulgaria finds that adding treatment-free remission phases to chronic myeloid leukemia care lowers costs ...
When a Dying Patient’s Wishes Collide With a Coverage Gap
A Viewpoint in the Journal of General Internal Medicine documents how a dying woman's documented wishes for comfort-focused care could ...
Vision Care in America Remains Out of Reach for Millions of Low-Income Patients, Review Finds
A new scoping review finds that income-related and structural barriers—including Medicaid coverage gaps, safety-net limitations, and low health literacy—leave low-income ...
Inside China’s Integrated Care Experiment: What Chengdu’s Older Adults Really Want
A dual survey of 127 institutions and 2,525 older adults in Chengdu finds high willingness to use China's integrated medical ...
China’s Hospital Payment Rules May Shortchange Sick Children, Study of 289,000 Cases Finds
A study of 289,026 pediatric hospitalizations in Chengdu and Hangzhou reveals that China's DRG payment groups fail to capture the ...
Why Young Doctors in Rural China Plan to Leave: Leadership and Family Life Hold the Key
A qualitative study of 26 rural-oriented medical students in Guangxi, China, finds that only about 23 percent intend to stay ...
Why Some Hospitals Send Surgical Patients Back to Their Family Doctor and Others Don’t
A new study finds that the likelihood of primary care follow-up after major surgery varies dramatically between US hospitals, raising ...
Cancer Patients Hide Their Herbal Remedies. Singapore Wants to Change That
A multi-stakeholder study at Singapore's National Cancer Centre has identified five priorities for safely integrating traditional and complementary therapies into ...
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