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News Archive in HSR

September 2008

• Effective Health Care Glossary - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 10-SEP-2008

• NCHS/AcademyHealth Fellowship application deadline for 2009/10 is 1/5/09 - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS)) - 09-SEP-2008

• National Health Plan Collaborative releases toolkit of resources, lessons, best practices and case studies to help health plans reduce disparities. - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)) - 08-SEP-2008

• SSA releases Fast Facts and Figures About Social Security, 2008 - (Social Security Administration (SSA)) - 05-SEP-2008

• NIH issues RFA for Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01) - (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) - 03-SEP-2008

August 2008

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• Request for Information (RFI): AHRQ Requests Input to Develop an Innovations Research Portfolio - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 25-AUG-2008

• NIH Announces the Posting of a Web-based Tutorial on Financial Conflict of Interest Requirements for All NIH-Supported Institutions - (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) - 25-AUG-2008

• California HealthCare Foundation issues RFP due 8/28: Using ELINCS to Deliver Laboratory Results to Clinical Practices - (California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)) - 20-AUG-2008

July 2008

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• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announces a $300-million commitment to improve heath care quality in regions across the US. - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)) - 10-JUL-2008 The commitment is to improve health care in 14 communities, that together cover 11 percent of the U.S. population. Known as Aligning Forces for Quality, the community-focused program will lift the overall quality of health care, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform.

June 2008

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• Kids' Share 2008: How Children Fare in the Federal Budget is focus of report. - 24-JUN-2008

• CMS releases Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) grant program announcement. - (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)) - 20-JUN-2008

• CMS releases grant announcement for Hispanic health services research - (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)) - 20-JUN-2008

• The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) for 2006 is released. - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 19-JUN-2008

• The number of underinsured U.S. adults has risen dramatically, a Commonwealth Fund study finds. - (Commonwealth Fund) - 11-JUN-2008

May 2008

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• Performance Measures Using Electronic Health Records: Five Case Studies issued by Commonwealth Fund - (Commonwealth Fund) - 27-MAY-2008

• WHO Reports Noncommunicable Diseases Now Biggest Killers - (World Health Organization (WHO)) - 27-MAY-2008 The global burden of disease is shifting from infectious diseases to noncommunicable diseases, with chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke now being the chief causes of death globally, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. The shifting health trends indicate that leading infectious diseases – diarrhea, HIV, tuberculosis, neonatal infections and malaria – will become less important causes of death globally over the next 20 years.

• Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology - new report issued by CBO - 27-MAY-2008

• Hospital Stays for Stroke and Other Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2005, HCUP Statistical Brief 51 is released. - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 13-MAY-2008

April 2008

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• MEPS HC-092: 1996-2004 risk adjustment scores public use data file made available by AHRQ - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 30-APR-2008

• HRSA awards $12 million in grants for Maternal and Child Health Services and Research. - (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)) - 28-APR-2008

• Health Care Innovations Exchange - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 25-APR-2008

• Understanding the Uninsured: Tailoring Policy Solutions for Different Subpopulations report released by NIHCM - 25-APR-2008

March 2008

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• Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports, 2008, are issued. - (Social Security Administration (SSA)) - 25-MAR-2008

• Health Coverage Tax Credits are analyzed in Urban Institute paper - 24-MAR-2008

• H-CUP E-News No. 14 is released. - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 24-MAR-2008

• Commonwealth Fund issues new chartbook on racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. health care and holds Webinar on 3/24 - (Commonwealth Fund) - 19-MAR-2008

• NCI offers paid fellowship with outstanding training opportunities in health communication - (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI)) - 13-MAR-2008

• Health Affairs posts top 10 journal articles of 2007 - (Project Hope) - 10-MAR-2008

• A new Joint Commission White Paper addresses development of a national performance measurement data strategy - 07-MAR-2008

• AHRQ releases 2007 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports and campanion online data query systems - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 04-MAR-2008

• PHSR mini-grant proposals due to U of Kentucky, College of Public Health on March 15. - (University of Kentucky) - 04-MAR-2008

February 2008

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• Linkage of the National Health Interview Survey to air quality data is topic of new NCHS report. - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS)) - 29-FEB-2008

• CBO releases report on geographic variation in health care spending - 21-FEB-2008

• NIH issues grant announcement for Community Participation in Research (R01) - 15-FEB-2008

• New HHS patient safety proposed regulation aims to improve health care quality and patient safety - 13-FEB-2008

• AHRQ releases "Patient Self-Management Support Programs An Evaluation" on the Web. - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 11-FEB-2008

• SSA releases "Cohort-Specific Measures of Lifetime Social Security Taxes and Benefits" - (Social Security Administration (SSA)) - 08-FEB-2008

• Synthesis of "Statistical Innovations for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" report released on the Web - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - 04-FEB-2008

• NIH faculty to provide grants training in Texas and Illinois - (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) - 04-FEB-2008

• Robert Ball, a chief architect of medicare, dies at 93. - (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)) - 01-FEB-2008 Ball was interviewed as part of a Kaiser Family Foundation documentary series to mark the 40th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. The interview, available online, includes Ball's assessment of the social and economic climate of the country prior to the enactment of Medicare.

January 2008

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• NCHS publishes new series "Data Briefs" - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS)) - 29-JAN-2008 Data briefs are statistical publications that provide information about current public health topics

• Kathleen Lohr appointed to National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality - 23-JAN-2008

• New report updates the Institute of Medicine analysis on the impact of uninsurance on mortality - (Urban Institute (UI)) - 22-JAN-2008

• Report summarizes state data for tracking disparities - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)) - 22-JAN-2008 Assessing health status is a core function of public health on the state level. This report summarizes the data available in each state for health assessment, a necessary step in achieving public health goals. Using the leading indicators from Healthy People 2010, the authors found that while data generally are available across all states, gaps do exist. Across states, data sometimes are not available for a few specific health objectives and for certain age groups.

• Community Participation in Research (R01) - (Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH (OBSSR)) - 17-JAN-2008

• NCHS releases provisional data for April 2007 on births, marriages, divorces, and deaths. - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS)) - 16-JAN-2008

• Health, United States, 2007 is published on the Web. - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS)) - 15-JAN-2008

• Report identifies access problems and financial burdens affect low-income adults - (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)) - 11-JAN-2008

• Health Games Research initiative, funded by RWJF, application deadline is Jan. 29. - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)) - 10-JAN-2008

• Deadline to submit proposals for 2008 State Quality Improvement Institute is Feb. 15, 2008. - 08-JAN-2008 This new initiative supported by Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth will assist selected states with the conceptualization and implementation of substantial quality improvements.

• Commonwealth study presents strong evidence that health improves significantly when people gain health insurance. - 04-JAN-2008

• NCHS posts early release of selected estimates based on data from the January-June 2007 National Health Interview Survey - 04-JAN-2008

• NCHS Health Data for All Ages updates data tables - 04-JAN-2008 Click on What's New on left-hand navigation bar

November 2007

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• Call for Proposals for Public Health Systems Research—Deadline January 15, 2008 - 26-NOV-2007

• Working paper analyzes Social Security benefits as a retirement resource for selected subgroups of current and recent cohorts of near-retirees. - (Social Security Administration (SSA)) - 26-NOV-2007

• New Commonwealth report outlines what is needed for the US to have a high performing health system. - (Commonwealth Fund) - 15-NOV-2007

October 2007

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• CMS funds Georgia health care transparency Web site - (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)) - 05-OCT-2007

• CBO Health Web site provides cross agency access to its activities - 02-OCT-2007

September 2007

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• NCHS/AcademyHealth seek applications for their 2008 Health Policy Fellowship - Deadline: 1/7/2008 - (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS)) - 26-SEP-2007

• NIH Announces New BIRCWH Awards to Promote Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health - (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) - 25-SEP-2007

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