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Health Affairs' Ellen Bayer and Chris Fleming interview Harlan Krumholz from the Yale School of Medicine about President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence and the implications for health care. Read the "ahead-of-print" article: "A Systematic Review Of COVID-19 Misinformation Interventions: Lessons Learned"  
Related Links:Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (White House)How Will The Executive Order On Artificial Intelligence Impact Health Care? (Health Affairs Forefront)Big Data And New Knowledge In Medicine: The Thinking, Training, And Tools Needed For A Learning Health System (Health Affairs)The Challenge Of Federal Coverage And Payment For AI Innovation In Health Care (Health Affairs Forefront)

The AI Executive Order and Why Health Care Should Care

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Health Affairs' Jeff Byers chats with Senior Editor Michael Gerber about his recent trip to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Equity Conference in Bethesda and the main takeaways that he found from the diversity of panels offered. Order the Reimagining Public Health Theme Issue of Health Affairs.
 
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Scene Report from CMS' Health Equity Conference

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Health Affairs' Jeff Byers talks with Stacie Dusetzina of Vanderbilt University about the current state of obesity medications like Ozempic, the likelihood of insurance coverage, their costs, drug shortages, and how to ensure this medication finds its way to patients.  Join Health Affairs Insider to learn more about drug pricing with Stacie Dusetzina. For the month of June, use the code InsiderAtTwo to get $40 off of an Insider membership (offer ends on 6/30/24). The deadline is today (5/31/24) to submit your entry for the "You're A Health Policy Wonk If" Contest and try your chance at winning a subscription to Health Affairs for the next year. Be sure to RSVP for our upcoming Theme Issue Briefing on Reimagining Public Health! 

Obesity Medications & What You'll Pay For Them — If You Can Get Them w/ Stacie Dusetzina

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Health Affairs' Jeff Byers talks with Marianne Amoss about recent federal rulemaking activity over nursing facility staff levels and CMS' proposed mandatory kidney transplant value-based model. Read the newly published article "Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19" from our upcoming Reimaging Public Health theme issue. Related Links:Biden-Harris Administration Acts to Improve Access to Kidney Transplants (CMS)Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting Final Rule (CMS)Disparities in Acceptance of Deceased Donor Kidneys Between the United States and France and Estimated Effects of Increased US Acceptance (JAMA Internal Medicine)

Following the Rules: Nursing Facilities Staffing and Organ Transplants

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Health Affairs' Jeff Byers interviews Healthcare Dive's Rebecca Pifer to discuss the FTC's move to ban noncompete agreements. Join Health Affairs Insider. Related Links:FTC votes to ban noncompetes, with far-reaching effects on doctors (Healthcare Dive)


FTC Voted to Ban Noncompetes. Will It Actually Happen? w/ Rebecca Pifer

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Health Affairs' Jeff Byers and Jessica Bylander go over the demise of Walmart Health and the health of retail clinics and telemedicine. Order the May issue of Health Affairs. Finish the sentence: You're A Health Policy Wonk If... Related Links:Walmart shuttering all 51 health centers, citing lack of profitability (FierceHealthcare)The Impact of Telemedicine on Medicare Utilization, Spending, and Quality, 2019-22 (Health Affairs)Variation In Telemedicine Use And Outpatient Care During The COVID-19 Pandemic In The United States (Health Affairs)What is the cost of starting a medical practice? (Wolters Kluwer)Telehealth and COVID-19 (FAIR Health)

The AI Executive Order and Why Health Care Should Care

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