The Harvard Medical School Health Policy Education Initiative has developed a clinical case-based curriculum to teach health policy. Topics include:
  • Healthcare quality and resident work hours
  • Access to healthcare under Medicare
  • Racial disparities in HIV/AIDS care
Find out how to use these cases at your medical school or hospital.
 
"Improvehealthcare.org provides medical students with a dynamic platform to learn about today's major health care policy problems. The interactive cases bring to life health care quality problems as they affect real patients. Medical schools would do their students--and their future patients--a real service by adopting these cases in the classroom."
Donald Berwick, MD MPP
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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Science, Marketing and Prescribing Decisions: Who's Doing What to Whom?
Jerry Avorn, MD
Chief of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Don Berwick, MD
President and CEO, IHI

Devising a Presidential Health Policy:
David Blumenthal MD, MPP
Stuart Altman PhD, MD
Barack Obama’s Health Advisers

Massachusetts Health Reform in a Nutshell
James Mongan, MD
President and CEO, Partners HealthCare

Towards a High Performance Health System
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President, The Commonwealth Fund

Managing Change in Healthcare
Ellen Zane
President and CEO, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Value Based Purchasing and Pay for Performance
John W. Rowe, MD
Executive Chairman, Aetna

Improving Health Care:
The Employer View
Robert Galvin, MD
Director of Global Health, GE

Issue Brief
Background on pay for performance

Background on avian and pandemic flu
 
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