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Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: Experiences and Profiles of Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Coverage - In two papers, the perspectives of individuals without health insurance, who would become eligible under Medicaid expansion in 2014 is presented. The papers are based on interviews with adults in Cincinnati, Houston, Las Vegas and Tampa.
Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: How Obtaining Medicaid Coverage Impacts Low-Income Adults - Kaiser Family Foundation examines the impact of Medicaid on the lives of adults in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia, states in which Medicaid expansion has already occurred.
Fact Sheet: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Investments in Comparative Effectiveness Research for Data Infrastructure - Details how American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for the Office of the Secretary, Health and Human Services will enhance existing infrastructure and develop new databases, networks, and registries to make both public and private comparative effectiveness research endeavors sustainable and multiplicative.
Families USA - A national nonprofit working for the consumer in national and state health policy debates.
Families USA Meetings - Upcoming meetings.
Families USA: Children's Health - Information and resourches on children's health collected by Families USA.
FastStats A-Z - The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
Fatigability, Activity Limitations, and Bioenergetics in Aging (R01)
Fatigability, Activity Limitations, and Bioenergetics in Aging (R03)
Fatigability, Activity Limitations, and Bioenergetics in Aging (R21)
FDA Strategic Priorities 2011-2015 - The FDA regulates the entry of products (drugs, medical devices, etc.) into the marketplace. All such products must meet FDA's quality standards. This document outlines the goals and priority areas that will guide the FDA into 2015.
FDA's Sentinel Initiative - Launched in May 2008 by FDA, the Sentinel Initiative aims to develop and implement a proactive system that will complement existing systems that the Agency has in place to track reports of adverse events linked to the use of its regulated products.
Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research Report to the President and the Congress, June 30, 2009 - This report provides the strategic framework for comparative effectiveness research (4 pillars): Research, human & scientific capital for CER, data infrastructure, and dissemination and translation across 3 themes: Priority conditions, patient populations, and types of intervention.
Federal Economic Development Funding - Table of the urban-rural continuum and modified RUCA Codes for all counties in the United States.
Federal Employees Health Plan (FEHP) Disparity Index - An actuarial benchmark of health coverage for American Indians and Alaskan Natives that is equivalent to benefits in the Federal Employees Health Plan.
Federal Health Reform: State Legislative Tracking Database - This website enables one to search bills filed in response to the Affordable Care Act as well as 2011 and 2012 legislation by state, year, topic, keyword, status, and/or primary sponsor.
Federal Information Privacy Internship Program - The opportunity to participate in unpaid Federal Information Privacy Intern positions for undergraduate and graduate students is described in the webpage.
Federal Laws and Regulations - Maintained by NORC, this page provides access to federal and state laws/regulations relationed to aging issues. For example, the Older Americans Act and the Nursing Home Reform Law of 1987.
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
The Federal Register - The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) provides access to the official text of federal laws, presidential documents, and to administrative regulations and notices.
Federal Register E-mail Updates - Link to sign up for daily table of contents from the Federal Register.
Federal Register: Health & Public Welfare Searches - This site links directly to searches related to health and public welfare, for example, health care reform, electronic health information technology, controlled substances, etc. Note that each day ederal agencies publish numerous documents (articles) in the Federal Register, including proposed rules, final rules, public notices, and Presidential actions.
Federal Training Programs in Comparative Effectiveness Research - Appendix B of a 2010 White Paper, Establishing an AHRQ Learning Collaborative, lists CER Federal Training Program. As background on the white paper, at the 2010 National Research Service Award (NRSA) meeting, directors of T32 training programs funded by AHRQ discussed the importance of sharing knowledge and working more closely together. To gain a better understanding of the unique needs, preferences, and challenges of AHRQ training programs with respect to achieving these goals, a brief initial survey involving 10 of the 18 training programs was conducted. To explore these themes in more detail, 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted (five each with program directors and pre- and postdoctoral trainees). Additionally, interviews were conducted with individuals with expertise in establishing and working with collaboratives. These experts represented: AcademyHealth, AHRQ, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the NEWMEDS Project, and the PCMH/MU (Patient-Centered Medical Home/Meaningful Use) Collaborative. Applying a conceptual framework developed from a literature review of collective learning, themes were identified and consolidated as they emerged.
Federally Facilitated Exchanges - This Health Policy Brief looks at the establishment of federally facilitated exchanges in those states that opt to not create state-based health insurance exchanges.
FedStats - Provides links to Federal data access tools as well as statistics from more than 100 agencies.
Fellowship Opportunities - Fellowship programs in health and public policy.
Field of Health Policy Guide - This guide provides links to resources on various aspects of health policy.
Filling the Information Needs for Healthcare Reform: Expert Meeting Summary and Identification of Next Steps - To help meet the information needs of health care reform, and to inform our own work, AHRQ convened a small group of policymakers, researchers, and producers of health care data. The purpose of the meeting was to begin developing a strategy to optimize the availability of information and data for enactment and implementation of health care reform. This document provides a summary of the objectives and major conclusions from this meeting, as well as an update on early steps taken to date to put the strategy into effect.
The Financial Benefit to Hospitals from State Expansion of Medicaid: Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issues - This report looks at the effects of the ACA's Medicaid expansion on hospitals.
Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
Finding Answers Intervention Research (FAIR) Database - This search tool allows access to journal article summaries, from 11 systematic reviews of the published health disparities literature.
Finding Common Ground on SNAP for Agriculture, Health, and the Economy - This issue brief examines the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)on health, agriculture, and the economy.
Finding Funders - Provides grantseekers with several ways to find funders.
Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews - This report addresses the myriad and often competing guidelines for clinical recommendations by offering what it said are 21 standards to ensure objective, transparent, and scientifically valid reviews.
FireceHealthIT - Leading source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas.
First Annual CER Symposium: Responding to the National CER Agenda: Evolving Data Sources and Analytics - Held 6/15/2010, the focus of the symposium was the role that data will play in the implementation of CER projects. Speakers and panels covered the uses of new data sources in CER and ways to link claims data to outcomes; the limits of randomized clinical trials in CER; propensity scoring, selection bias, and decomposition analysis; and HIPAA constraints, privacy and confidentiality. Access agenda and presentations.
A First Look at the Volume and Cost of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States - This report provides an environmental scan of the volume and the range of cost of recent comparative effectiveness research.
First Tuesdays/Public Policy Events - Series of public policy events on a wide variety of current topics. Drawing from Institute researchers and area experts, these lunchtime discussions offer authoritative analysis and audience interaction on topics ranging from social services and politics to faith well-being. Audio-recordings of past events are accessible at this site.
Flex Monitoring Team - The Rural Health Research Centers at the Universities of Minnesota, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Southern Maine (the Flex Monitoring Team), are the recipients of a 5-year cooperative agreement award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to continue to monitor and evaluate the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program (Flex Program). The monitoring project is assessing the impact of the Flex Program on Critical Access Hospitals and their communities and the role of states in achieving overall program objectives.
Florida HealthFinder - A web-based tool which allows easy access to comprehensive Florida health care information.
Fogarty International Center, NIH - The Fogarty International Center is investing in implementation science to help researchers determine the most effective way to implement known efficacious interventions in global health settings. This website provides links to resources on implementation science.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Produces reports, presentations, etc., related to CER. Provides drug and medical device surveillance.
Food Protection Rapid Response Team - This funding opportunity would create up to 9 Rapid Response Teams within the national integrated food safety system.
Food Protection Task Force Improvement Project - This funding opportunity is intended to improve the national food protection system by facilitating the development and implementation of projects within existing Food Protection Task Forces.
For the Public's Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability - To inform the public health community and all other sectors that contribute to population health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned the IOM to examine three major topics that influence the health of the public-measurement, laws, and funding. In this, the first of three reports, the IOM reviews current approaches for measuring the health of individuals and communities and suggests changes in the processes, tools, and approaches used to gather information about health outcomes and their determinants.
For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information - This book from 1997 discusses the major privacy and security concerns that the electronic health record creates and posits ways of protecting this information.
For Your Health - University of Central Florida alumni Ayanna O'Connor and Karen van Caulil speak about their work conducting health services research and policy administration.
Fostering Independence, Participation, and Healthy Aging Through Technology - Workshop Summary - The results of a workshop held December 19, 2012, this report examines the use of technology to foster independence and healthy aging among working-age individuals with disabilities and among individuals who are developing disabilities while they age.
Foundation Center - The Center provides information for grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.
A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care - The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a "rapid learning health system" to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes the workshop.
Free Webinar: Using the PCORI Methodology Standards to Generate Robust, Relevant, and Timely Evidence for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research - This webinar, being held Tuesday, June 4, 2013, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET, is part of a mini-course sponsored by PCORI that will take place on June 25, 2013.
FRESH-Thinking - This website discusses the work of the think-tank, which devotes itself to the analysis of health care reform policy options.
Friends of Cancer Research Comparative Effectiveness Research Information - Links to meetings on CER, reports, briefings, and appropriations information.
Frontiers in Public Health Services & Systems Research
Funding Opportunities
The Future of Healthcare Innovations and Health Information Technology - Video Presentation - On 20 January 2011, healthcare leaders gathered for influential roundtable on health information technology to look at innovative technologies from the perspective of key stakenholders.

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