Report of the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform
March 4, 2013 | Issue Brief
The National Commission on Physician Payment Reform studies new ways to improve patient outcomes, while reining in costs.
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The Affordable Care Act and Physician Supply
January 29, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A report completed this month examines how the Affordable Care Act will affect the nation’s supply of physicians.
RWJF Brings Epidemic of Child Abuse Out of Shadows
November 13, 2012 | Story
Four decades ago, RWJF gave a grant to a visionary who called the world’s attention to the health effects of child abuse and neglect.
Improving Access to Subspecialty Care for Patients at Community Health Centers
October 26, 2012 | Story
RWJF Clinical Scholar explores the variety of models community health centers use to access subspecialty care for patients.
Looking at Comprehensive Safety Nets in Seven Communities
October 10, 2012 | Program Result
From 2009 through 2012, researchers analyzed access to care and the cost of care provided by comprehensive health care safety nets in seven communities.
Will the Primary Care Shortage Get Worse?
August 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Last week, NPR aired a story examining the prognosis for primary care providers in the United States. The country will have tens of thousands fewer health care providers than it needs to care for its the population by 2015, and the shortage is expec ...
Project ECHO: Expanding Access by Sharing Medical Knowledge
May 14, 2012 | Feature
Arora created Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) as a way to break down the knowledge wall and empower primary care providers to treat patients with hepatitis C.
GAO Report: Medicaid and CHIP Children Have Harder Time Finding Specialty Care
July 8, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
A newly released study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have a much harder time obtaining care from medical specialists than do children ...
Shortage of On-Call Surgical Specialists in Nation's Emergency Rooms, RWJF Clinical Scholar Finds
February 4, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
In nearly three-quarters of the nation’s emergency rooms, patients might not be getting the urgent care they need because of inadequate on-call coverage by surgical specialists. RWJF Clinical Scholar Mitesh Rao, M.D, M.H.S. and his colleagues found ...
Getting Out the Word on Effective Tobacco Treatment
July 15, 2010 | Program Result
The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention updated educational information and tools in a revised tobacco cessation treatment guideline, created new ones, and disseminated them to clinicians and consumers to spur the guideline's widespread use.