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Former NIMH Director Joins Newsom Team as Mental Health Adviser

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Former National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel will lead efforts to reorganize California’s mental health delivery system.

May 31, 2019

•Health Workforce

External Resource

Mapping the Future of Individual Health Insurance

May 30, 2019

External Resource

Covered California and Individual Health Insurance

May 30, 2019

Data Insight

Affordability on California’s Individual Market Under the ACA

This issue brief explores trends in key data on the affordability of health coverage in California, to highlight both progress and remaining challenges to affordability on the state’s individual market under the ACA.

May 30, 2019

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Expert Perspective

To Switch or Not to Switch — That Is the Question

The role of electronic health records is evolving in most California community health centers, a trend that is challenging managers to consider changing systems to keep up with changing needs.

May 29, 2019

•Primary Care

Report

Health Information Exchange Metrics and Evaluation Strategy for California

This report outlines a proposed strategy for measuring and evaluating the activity of California’s regional health information organizations, which are poised for growth under the new California Health Information Exchange Onboarding Program.

May 29, 2019

•Technology and Innovation

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When the Practitioner Becomes the Patient

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Kathy Brandt is a nationally recognized expert in palliative health care, but nothing has acquainted her more intimately with the subject than her decision to seek it for herself.

May 24, 2019

•Health Workforce

Expert Perspective

California Surgeon General Puts Spotlight on Childhood Trauma

California’s first surgeon general wants the state’s health care system to understand the impact that childhood trauma has on lifelong health outcomes. Nadine Burke Harris told us how she’ll accomplish that.

May 23, 2019

•Behavioral Health

Behind the Headlines

Proposed Poverty Calculation Would Make More People Ineligible for Medicaid

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The Trump administration is seeking public comment on possible changes to the formula that sets the federal poverty guideline — an action that could reduce access to safety-net programs for millions.

May 17, 2019

•Health Insurance Coverage

Feature Story

Committed Physician Recruits Young People to Diversify Health Care Workforce

Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, a no-nonsense doctor from Oakland’s Highland Hospital, is on the lookout for youth from families with low incomes who could become future nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, and more.

May 16, 2019

•Health Workforce

Report

To Switch or Not to Switch: A Guide for Community Clinics Considering Changing EHRs

This guide will help community health center (CHC) leaders weigh the costs and benefits of remaining with their current electronic health record system (EHR) or switching to a different one. Many CHCs are considering this decision, as a shifting health…

May 9, 2019

•Technology and Innovation

Report

Community-Based Palliative Care Fee-For-Service Billing Strategies

May 8, 2019

•Older Adults

Expert Perspective

California Journalist Moves from Writing Health Care News to Making It

After spending most of her career at the Los Angeles Times and Kaiser Health News, award-winning reporter Anna Gorman is now a public servant helping Los Angeles County residents who don’t have health insurance.

May 8, 2019

•Primary Care

Quick Read

Lessons from Three States — Expanding the Role of Nurse Practitioners in California

This fact sheet summarizes how Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico have expanded practice authority for nurse practitioners. CHCF hosted a briefing on May 6, 2019, with experts from these states on what California can learn about nurse practitioners and expanded…

May 6, 2019

•Health Workforce

Behind the Headlines

Lifting the Veil of Secrecy in Health Care Prices

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Economist Uwe Reinhardt famously said the system for determining prices in the US health care system was “chaos behind a veil of secrecy.” That was in 2006, and clearly, the chaos persists today.

May 3, 2019

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

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Former NIMH Director Joins Newsom Team as Mental Health Adviser

Mapping the Future of Individual Health Insurance

Covered California and Individual Health Insurance

Affordability on California’s Individual Market Under the ACA

To Switch or Not to Switch — That Is the Question

Health Information Exchange Metrics and Evaluation Strategy for California

When the Practitioner Becomes the Patient

California Surgeon General Puts Spotlight on Childhood Trauma

Proposed Poverty Calculation Would Make More People Ineligible for Medicaid

Committed Physician Recruits Young People to Diversify Health Care Workforce

To Switch or Not to Switch: A Guide for Community Clinics Considering Changing EHRs

Community-Based Palliative Care Fee-For-Service Billing Strategies

California Journalist Moves from Writing Health Care News to Making It

Lessons from Three States — Expanding the Role of Nurse Practitioners in California

Lifting the Veil of Secrecy in Health Care Prices

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