Innovations in Primary Care: What’s in the ACA?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aims to move the health care system away from an episodic, fee-for-service approach and towards a coordinated, preventive model of care delivery.
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Investing in Health IT: What the U.S. and Other Countries Are Learning
Event Date:EventRecent legislation, including the stimulus package and the new health reform law, invests substantial funds in health information technology which can help prevent medical errors and improve the quality and value of care. However, questions have been raised about the cost of implementation and personal privacy considerations.
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Shared Medical Decision Making: We’re in This Together
Event Date:EventIn recent years, awareness of the patient’s important role in managing his or her own care has been steadily growing—fed not only by such trends as the proliferation of health information on the internet and direct-to-consumer advertising, but also by the emerging science of patient-centered decision making.
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Getting Connected: Can the ACA Improve Access to Health Care in Rural Communities?
Event Date:EventResidents of rural communities face unique health care challenges, including fewer health care providers, higher rates of chronic disease, and lower adoption rates of health information technology.
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What’s in There? An Ask-the-Experts Overview of the Health Reform Law
Event Date:EventThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 are now law. But many people have questions about the new reforms. To answer questions about the major provisions of these two laws, the Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund sponsored an April 16 briefing.
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The Innovation Center: How Much Can It Improve Quality and Reduce Costs – and How Quickly?
Event Date:EventThe new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) seeks to test new health care payment and service delivery models that can potentially enhance quality of care for beneficiaries while reducing costs.
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A Dose of Reality in the Virtual World of Health IT
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform hosted a September 28 briefing to discuss electronic health records (EHRs), and the progress of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
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Many States Are Making Wide-Ranging Improvements To Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment Systems to Prepare for the Affordable Care Act in 2014
News ReleaseNew Survey Finds States Investing in Technology, Simplifying Enrollment Processes Washington, D.C.
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Medicare Beneficiaries Are Not Luddites
From Drew AltmanIn a new column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman discusses new KFF survey data that shows that a surprising share of older adults with Medicare are using health tech regularly, and a solid majority support many of CMS’ goals to make it more widely available. But there are also big income gaps in the use of health tech, and concerns about AI, privacy, and other barriers to rapid and more widespread adoption. “Apparently… a lot of Medicare beneficiaries—but not all beneficiaries equally—are ready for more health tech, and have become tech savvy to survive,” Altman writes.
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Charting the Way Forward: New Efforts to Advance Electronic Health Information Sharing
Issue BriefIn July 2025, the Trump administration announced a new effort (“Making Health Tech Great Again”) towards health data interchange.. This brief describes the new, voluntary Trump administration interoperability initiative, provides an overview of key health information technology laws and regulations, and highlights some of the challenges and limitations of these efforts.