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IOM’s Call to Action on End-of-Life Care in the United States
By
Laura Morgan
End-of-Life Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
October 2014, Vol 5 , No 8
The initiative to improve end-of-life care in the United States is taking center stage, and it is about time. The US population is aging, and the number of older Americans with comorbidities is growing.
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HHS Relaxes Electronic Health Record Certification Criteria
By
Rosemary Frei, MSc
Health Policy
,
Policies & Guidelines
October 2014, Vol 5 , No 8
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has responded to the chorus of voices calling for less complex rules governing electronic health records (EHRs) by not adopting the Voluntary 2015 Edition Electronic Health Record Certification Criteria.
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Medicare Coverage Not Aligned with Preferences of Patients with Cancer, Caregivers
By
Rosemary Frei, MSc
Health Policy
,
Policies & Guidelines
October 2014, Vol 5 , No 8
A survey of patients with cancer and caregivers about the benefits they would like Medicare to cover in their last 6 months of life uncovered large gaps with the benefits that Medicare currently offers (Taylor DH Jr, et al.
J Clin Oncol
. 2014;32:3163-3168).
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Cost Burden Follows Patients with Cancer into Survivorship
By
Charles Bankhead
Economics & Value
,
Economics of Cancer Care
,
Survivorship
,
Policies & Guidelines
September 2014, Vol 5, No 7
The high cost of cancer care follows patients well into survivorship, as annual medical costs and losses in productivity exceed those of people without cancer by 50% to 100%, a study for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed (Ekwueme DU, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014;63:505-510).
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Smoking Still a Major Cause of Cancer Death: A Call to Action on Tobacco Control
By
Charles Bankhead
Health Policy
,
Policies & Guidelines
June 2014, Vol 5, No 5
San Diego, CA—Tobacco researchers and regulators lauded progress in tobacco control, but they emphasized that the health burden of tobacco use continues, reflecting the expanding list of diseases caused or exacerbated by tobacco.
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Updated NCCN Survivorship Guidelines
By
Wayne Kuznar
Survivorship
,
Policies & Guidelines
May 2014, Vol 5, No 4
Hollywood, FL—Cancer survivorship guidelines have been expanded to include the management of neuropathic pain and cancer-associated cognitive dysfunction, said speakers at the 2014 National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) meeting.
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Survivorship Care Plan Use Lagging
By
Rosemary Frei, MSc
Survivorship
,
Survivorship Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
May 2014, Vol 5, No 4
Cancer centers are ramping up their efforts to create survivorship care plans (SCPs) for all of their patients. However, according to a new survey conducted in 2013, they still have far to go before January 1, 2015, when the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) accreditation requirement of creating SCPs for all patients comes into effect (Birken SA, et al.
J Cancer Educ
. 2014 April 6. Epub ahead of print)
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Up Next for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: Cancer
By
Ross D. Margulies, JD, MPH
;
Jayson Slotnik, JD, MPH
Health Policy
,
Policies & Guidelines
May 2014, Vol 5, No 4
In passing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, Congress had as one of its central goals the creation of new, innovative ways of paying for and delivering healthcare services. With this goal in mind, the ACA established the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which is tasked with developing new payment and service delivery models to “demo” and, if successful, to eventually roll out nationwide.
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Recent HHS Reports Highlight Need to Address Drug Shortages
By
James Cohen, JD
;
Michael Ryan, JD
;
John Warren, JD
Health Policy
,
Policies & Guidelines
May 2014, Vol 5, No 4
In recent years, an increasing number of drug shortages have threatened public health by reducing—if not eliminating—patient access to critical pharmaceuticals.
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Oncology Practice Management, Navigation, & Advocacy Day Abstracts
Patient Navigation
,
Practice Management
,
Policies & Guidelines
,
Value Peer-spectives
April 2014, Vol 5, No 3
Oncology Practice Management, Navigation, & Advocacy Day Abstracts from the 4th Annual AVBCC Conference.
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