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KFF Contributions to The JAMA Forum To provide ongoing coverage throughout this election year, JAMA assembled a team of leading scholars, including the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt. Below are a collection of his contributions: Nov. 28, 2012: Key Decisions Loom for States About the Health Care Law Oct. 16, 2012: Hard Questions on Health Care Sept. 6, 2012: What Is Health Care Cost Containment? Aug. 2, 2012: The Middle Class Tax Break Hardly Anyone…
The Alliance for Health Reform, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor an August 13 briefing to discuss the complexities of integrating patient-generated information into the electronic health record, including regulation, "meaningful use" requirements, HIPAA concerns, and more. Speakers will explore such questions as: What other special issues need to be addressed to enable the transmission of patient-generated information to occur effectively? What are the principal barriers to more rapid adoption…
Menlo Park, Calif. – The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation announced today that Beverly Malone, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. has been elected to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Malone brings her experience to the Kaiser board as a leader in health care, nursing, nursing education, and health policy in the U.S. and in Europe. Dr. Malone is a former two-term President of the American Nurses Association and was a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the…
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The Kaiser Media Internships in Health: 2011 Kaiser Media Interns The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sponsors 16 annual summer internships for journalists interested in specializing in health and health policy reporting. The aim is to provide journalists just starting their reporting careers with an in-depth introduction to and practical experience on the specialist health beat - with a particular focus on diverse and immigrant communities. Interns are typically just graduating from undergraduate or graduate…
NEWS RELEASEMay 24, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has elected 15 individuals as the 2012 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars. These Scholars will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about health policy and the policymaking process during 11 weeks in Washington, DC, working in Congressional offices, participating in seminars and site visits organized by the Foundation, and completing a health policy analysis project. The Foundation established the Barbara Jordan Scholars…
The Kaiser Media Internships in Health: 2011 Kaiser Media Interns The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sponsors 16 annual summer internships for journalists interested in specializing in health and health policy reporting. The aim is to provide journalists just starting their reporting careers with an in-depth introduction to and practical experience on the specialist health beat - with a particular focus on diverse and immigrant communities. Interns are typically just graduating from undergraduate or graduate…
This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to view on kff.org. To download this or other tutorials, visit the tutorials archive page. Slides are available for download using the "Download Slides"…
Kaiser Media Fellowships 2011 Site Visits Starting in 2011, the fellowship program provides in-depth briefings and week-long site visits focused on complex health policy issues. These are for invited health and health policy journalists, with invitations tailored to the topics and issues addressed. California: The first site visit of 2011 focused on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in California. In May 2011, journalists with a strong focus on health policy, state health…
The Kaiser Media Fellows — journalists with a strong focus on health policy and state health reform — were invited to participate in a week-long program focused on health care and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Texas. Based in Austin and Dallas, the site visits offered journalists the opportunity to meet with a variety of experts and stakeholders. Journalists met with state health officials, health policy analysts, academics, community clinic staff members…
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