Dr. Mark D. Smith urges medical educators to rethink how doctors are trained in the new world of team care and technology at the 2012 meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

What states do or do not do — and how well they do it — will largely determine whether the Affordable Care Act achieves its goals. Mark Smith considers this question in a blog post for JAMA Forum.

Can new approaches to provider reimbursement help to reduce costs while better aligning incentives for physicians and patients? CHCF President Dr. Mark Smith looks at the issue in a blog post for Health Affairs.

Most Americans who will be newly covered by Medicaid expansion and exchange-based subsidies will come with low reimbursement rates. Mark Smith considers this question in a blog post for JAMA Forum.

To expand or not to expand? That is the question that 50 states must now consider for their Medicaid programs. CHCF President Dr. Mark Smith looks at the issue in a blog post for JAMA Forum.

In a blog post for JAMA Forum, CHCF President Mark Smith argues that, regardless of the Supreme Court decision or the results of the upcoming presidential election, health reform is already happening, and will continue.

When we asked Californians what a "good" death meant to them in a recent survey, they said they would prefer to die naturally at home without being a burden, financially or emotionally, on their families.

The Health 2.0 movement seeks to revolutionize health care delivery through technology advancements. Dr. Mark Smith provided words of encouragement and caution at its annual conference in San Francisco.

The CHCF Health Care Leadership Program recently celebrated its 10th year. In his keynote address, Dr. Mark Smith made an appeal to the alumni and offered words of advice to rescue the ailing health care system.

Foundations often go it alone in seeking to improve the lives of the people they focus on. But when it comes to helping community clinics transform themselves as part of health reform, CHCF President Mark Smith argues philanthropy should be a team sport.

What is the right level of care? There is lots of evidence that the answer is not always "more," even for gravely ill patients. At CHCF we try to be a catalyst in establishing mechanisms to afford people a louder say in what they want.

CHCF played a catalyzing role in examining questions around variation in treatment patterns. We convened researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas and leaders at the University of California medical schools, allowing participants to discuss the data and pose questions.

On October 27, 2010, Dr. Mark Smith spoke with Conversations On Health Care, a radio program broadcast by Wesleyan University, about how CHCF has helped drive innovation and reform to improve health care for all Californians.

A recent Health Affairs blog post by CHCF President Mark Smith and colleagues suggests that insights from the field of engineering science could be applied to how hospitals are paid for episode-based care under national health reform.

CHCF is making adjustments in our strategy, both to sharpen our program focus and to adapt to the new realities created by passage of the federal Affordable Care Act of 2010. Read about our new initiative and changes to existing programs.