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Encouraging Adolescents’ Use of Recommended Health Care Services

NIHCM Foundation invites you to participate in a webinar "Encouraging Adolescents' Use of Recommended Health Ca...

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NIHCM Award Winners Announced!

The winners of our annual Health Care Research, Print Journalism, and Television and Radio Journalism Awards have been select...

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Understanding the Uninsured: Tailoring Policy Solutions for Different Subpopulations

NIHCM Foundation has released a new report, Understanding the Uninsured: Tailoring Policy Solutions for Different Subpopulati...

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Robert Greczyn, CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Addresses Chronic Conditions

On March 25, 2008, the Alliance for Health Reform hosted a briefing, "Helping 125 Million Americans: Improving Care for ...

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NIHCM Has Accepted Entries for its 2008 Health Care Research and Journalism Awards.

NIHCM Foundation has accepted entries for its Fourteenth Annual Health Care Research and Journalism Awards and its First Annu...

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Connecting the Electronic Dots Among Disparate Health Providers

Barriers to sharing patient clinical data among unaffiliated hospitals, doctors and other health care providers remain high...

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Advisory Board

Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD

Founding President, Center for Studying Health System Change; Founding Executive Director, Physician Payment Review Commission; Former Senior Economist, RAND; Former Deputy Assistant Director, Congressional Budget Office; Former Faculty, Duke and Michigan State Universities; Former Economist, U.S. Public Health Service; Former Member, Academy Health Board of Directors;  Founding Member, National Academy of Social Insurance.

Senator Bill Frist, MD

Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Visiting Professor of International Economic Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader; Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Board of Fellows, Harvard Medical School. 

John K. Iglehart

National Correspondent, The New England Journal of Medicine; Founding Editor Health Affairs journal; Former Editor, National Journal; Elected member, Institute of Medicine; served on Governing Council; Elected member, National Academy of Social Insurance; Former Board Member, American Board of Medical Specialties, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and Academy Health; Former Director, Kaiser Family Foundation; Former Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.

Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD

Director, Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform, Brookings Institution; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid; Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; Former   Member, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Treasury for Economic Policy; Former Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Former  Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medical School. 

James J. Mongan, MD

President and CEO, Partners HealthCare System, Inc.; Former President, Massachusetts General Hospital Corp. and the General Hospital; Former Executive Director, Truman Medical Center; Former Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Former Assistant Surgeon General; Former Associate Director for Health and Human Resources, Domestic Policy Staff, the White House; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy, Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Carter Administration); Board memberships: Vice Chair, National Institute of Medicine, National Research Governing Council; Chair, Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System; Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid; Commonwealth Fund.

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD

James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Elected member, Institute of Medicine; served on Governing Council; Board Member and Past President, Association of Health Services Research; Trustee, Duke University Health System; Former member, National Leadership Commission on Health Care; Former Board Member, Physician Payment Review Commission.

Robert Reischauer, PhD

President, Urban Institute; Vice Chair, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Administrator, Board of Overseers, Harvard University; Administrator, Harvard Corporation; Director, Congressional Budget Office; Former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Former Senior Vice President, Urban Institute; Former Board Member Academy Health; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Founding member, National Academy of Social Insurance.

James C. Robinson, PhD

Editor-in-chief, Health Affairs; Professor of Health Economics and Chair, Division of Health Policy and Management, UC, Berkeley School of Public Health; Chair, Health and Policy Program, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Faculty Member, Health Management Program, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; Board Member, Integrated HealthCare Association.

Leonard D. Schaeffer

Chairman, Surgical Care Affiliates; Senior Advisor, TPG Capital; Founding Chairman, WellPoint, Inc.; Former Chairman and CEO, Blue Cross of California; Chairman and CEO, WellPoint Health Networks, Inc.; Former Chairman of the Board, NIHCM Foundation; former President, Group Health, Inc.; former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services; Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Carter Administration); active on the boards of numerous business, philanthropic and professional organizations.

Gail R. Wilensky, PhD

Senior Fellow, Project HOPE; Commissioner, WHO Commission Social Determinants of Health; Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration; Former Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Development, the White House (Bush Administration); Vice Chair, Maryland Health Care Commission; Elected member, Institute of Medicine; served on Governing Council; Trustee, Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America, American Heart Association and the National Opinion Research Center; Advisor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund; Member, UnitedHealth Care Group Board of Directors; Former Member, Academy Health Board of Directors; Former Chair, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.