Electronic medical records (EMRs) can play an important role in the reduction of medication errors, but they should not be considered the be-all, end-all solution. Healthcare organizations, in fact, are discovering that simply implementing single-platform EMR systems is not enough to truly protect patients from the medication errors that cost the U.S.
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Following a call for applications earlier this year, five early-career researchers from around the world will be joining the eLife Early-Career Advisory Group (ECAG) this month. The five new ECAG members are: Elizabeth Ochola (Kenya), Facundo Romani (Argentina), Lana Sinapayen (Japan), Lara Urban (New Zealand), and Aalok Varma (India). The aim of ECAG is to help eLife reform research communication and to promote a research culture that is healthy for science and for scientists.
New ECAG members 2021
Elizabeth Ochola: Research Scientist at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
At the Journal of Health Care Finance, Jean Abraham, Sih-Ting Cai and myself have a short policy focused blog to pay for quality on the Affordable Care Act’s individual health insurance marketplace. Some of our previous research, with an additional co-author in Coleman Drake, had found that Medicaid Managed Care organizations had lower than average effectiveness of care ratings and behavioral health ratings. We were curious about the quality of some of the most commonly bought plans on Healthcare.gov.
The ACA used a price-linked subsidy system to make insurance available and at least theoretically affordable for individuals who report between 100% and 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. This price linked system is based on filling the gap between an individual’s contribution which is defined as a percentage of the household’s income (lower income = lower percentage) and the gross premium of the second least expensive silver plan that serves as a local benchmark.