Browsing: Health Policy

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Health Policy

Preserving the Safety Net: What is the True Cost of the Uninsured?

1/26/2017 Rachel Solnick, MD , Eugenia C. South, MD, MSPH , Erik J. Blutinger, MD, MSc
Preserving the Safety Net: What is the True Cost of the Uninsured? President Donald J. Trump has sparked emotional debate across the country with bold promises on important public health issues like
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President's Message , Advocacy

Use Your Voice!

1/24/2017 Alicia Kurtz, MD
Use Your Voice! Hello there, EMRA! What a few months it has been! On the national level, we've had a presidential election and inauguration causing the politics in our capital to take a palpable pivo
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Health Policy Fellowships , Fellowships , Health Policy , Legislation

In This State House: Life as a Physician in the Legislature

8/1/2016 Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH
In This State House: Life as a Physician in the Legislature There I was, sitting in Starbucks with a recently elected state representative. As a new healthy policy fellow and emergency physician, I w
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Critical Care , Pain Management , Health Policy

Introducing the ALTO Alternatives to Opioids Program

8/1/2016 Katrina D’Amore DO, MPH , David Traficante, DO , Alexis M. LaPietra, DO, FACEP
Introducing the ALTO Alternatives to Opioids Program Steven Stack, MD, FACEP, an emergency medicine physician and immediate past-president of AMA, confronted the crisis in an open letter to America's
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Advocacy , Health Policy

How to Talk to Your Legislator

7/19/2016 Patricia Yang
How to Talk to Your Legislator As medical students and future physicians, each of us can think of an issue or concern that we wish would be handled differently. Often, though, we stop at wishing for
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Affordable Care Act , Legislation , Health Policy

Affordable Care Act: 5 Years Later Are We There Yet?

5/23/2016 Zachary Meisel, MD, MPH, MSHP , Erik J. Blutinger, MD, MSc
Affordable Care Act: 5 Years Later Are We There Yet? Just 5 years ago, millions of Americans entered a new era of health care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was born and sold as the solution for impr
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Health Policy

EMTALA: Things You Never Knew (or Never Thought to Ask)

4/4/2016 Ross Christensen, DO , Elizabeth Davlantes, MD
EMTALA: Things You Never Knew (or Never Thought to Ask) Happy birthday, EMTALA! The law that revolutionized emergency medicine turns 30 this year. We all know the basic tenets of this legislation: pr
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Health Policy , Legislation

Is the Sky Falling?

1/30/2016 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA
Is the Sky Falling? The past year saw a flurry of activity in the world of health policy, with movement in the regulatory and legislative realms on multiple fronts. For emergency medicine physicians,
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Health Policy

Out of Ativan?! The Drug Shortage Crisis in the U.S.

1/29/2016 Theresa Tassey, MD, MS
Out of Ativan?! The Drug Shortage Crisis in the U.S. Emergency departments across the United States have felt the effects of the growing and constantly changing list of nationwide drug shortages. The
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ACEP Representative , Health Policy , Regulatory

Understanding ACEP's Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR)

12/3/2015 Alison Smith, MD, MPH
Understanding ACEP's Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) Do you wish you had accessible information on patient outcomes based on the actions you take in the emergency department? Have you ever st