April 25 is National DNA Day! Celebrate by joining in as NASA Astronaut Dr. Kate Rubins teams up with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, NHGRI Director Dr. Eric Green and the National Human Genome Research […]
PROJECT COPE: COALITION ON PATIENT EMPOWERMENT
Empowering Health Care With Teamwork, Knowledge & Common Sense
Review & Comment on AHRQ Health Care Quality Research & Summaries
Health care providers, patients, payers and others concerned about the promotion of health care quality should monitor and consider providing input and feedback to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) efforts to improve […]
Updated Pandemic Influenza Mitigation Guidelines Released
The Centers for Disease Control just released its updated Community Mitigation Guidelines to Prevent Pandemic Influenza — United States, 2017. The guidelines update and expand the 2007 strategy for nonpharmaceutical interventions, which are strategies for disease, […]
New HHS Web Page To Track HHS ACA Relief & Reform
The Department of Health and Human Services recently launched a new web page on HHS.gov highlighting the regulatory and administrative actions the Department is taking to relieve the burden of the current healthcare law and support […]
Everyone Has A Part In Making Healthcare Better
Improving health care, its quality and affordability is everyone’s responsibility and everyone has a role to play.
Listen To Dr. Strickland’s Commin Sense Health Fix Insights
Start cutting through the political hype around healtg reform by listening to real people on the front line: the patients and doctors on the frontline. Start by listening in here to Dr. Mike Strickland, who is making […]
Tell Congress What You Want On Health Reform
Health care reform is not dead as widely reported in mainstream media following Speaker Ryan’s announcement a few weeks ago that the House of Representatives would not vote on the America Health Care Act (AHCA) proposed Congress […]
Competing Business Interests Undermine Society’s Wellness Goals
The legislative battle winding up in Austin Texas over a proposal to restrict The smoking age for vapor cigarettes highlights the ongoing conflict between Americans’ stated policy commitment to wellness and the economic interests of […]
Health Savings Should Start With Misdirected “Quality” Standards
Well-intentioned but misdirected “quality@ and safety regulations and third party imposed credentialing, rating and quality standards drive up operating costs of hospitals, physicians and other health providers, payers and plan sponsors. See e.g., here. Beyond […]
PROJECT COPE: COALITION ON PATIENT EMPOWERMENT 