What does health care look like after COVID-19 pandemic?
In a new perspective piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Assistant Professor of Health Policy Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, joins fellow researchers and economists in projecting what health care delivery could look like after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The Business of Medicine in the Era of COVID-19" explores what could happen with small, independent practices, and what the patient experience will look like after telemedicine was forced into everyday practice.
Vanderbilt Health Policy COVID-19 Model Finds Evidence of Flattening Curve, Recommends Distancing Policies Continue
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have found evidence of the rate of COVID-19 infection slowing in Tennessee, which reduces the chance that the state will run out of hospital capacity for patients.
3 Health Policy faculty named to COVID-19 Public Health Advisory Task Force at Vanderbilt
by Jalen Blue
Vanderbilt University Division of Communications
How the ACA dented the health care cost curve
A decade after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, there is evidence that the landmark health legislation has contributed to slower growth U.S. health care spending.
Hospitals adopting more tech in health information exchange, which may present its own risks
Among 1,917 hospitals across the U.S. from 2014-2016, there was a consistent increase in engagement and adoption of types health information exchange, but no single one of those tools provided high levels of usable, integrated health information.