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Keynote 2: Virtual Clinical Trials – Care from Anywhere This keynote examined the notion of meeting patient needs and expectations in novel settings using virtual clinical trials – ones that leverage digital health technologies such as online platforms, mobile apps, and remote monitoring devices to deliver trial elements to patients – as a case study. […]

Keynote 1: The Importance of the Patient Voice in Health Care This opening keynote provided an introduction to the “patient voice” and why it’s more important than ever to include patient priorities and needs in all levels of care design, delivery, and measurement. Our speaker tied in themes of advocacy, access, and patient-centeredness to drive […]

Summit Overview Part II of the Alliance for Health Policy’s 2020 Signature Series focused on the Voice of the Patient. During this Summit, we examined the patient’s voice across several levels of health care design, delivery, and measurement. Throughout this three-day event, we studied how the patient voice is collected, how it supports shared-decision making, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed both new and longstanding needs of long-term care patients. Congress and the administration modified over 200 Medicare regulations, which has afforded response flexibility to providers, Medicare Advantage plans, and Part D plans. But how do these flexibilities impact the long-term care sector? Experts overviewed the recent changes, remaining gaps, and […]

Overview As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine approval continues, the need for a multi-stakeholder, national vaccine deployment strategy is becoming more urgent. With ambitious dose manufacturing goals and increased pressure to make COVID-19 vaccines accessible to everyone as quickly as possible, it is crucial to identify and understand potential challenges that our health care […]

It has been observed that people in the United States are more likely to report mental health concerns stemming from the pandemic than individuals in other high-income countries (The Commonwealth Fund). The economic effects of COVID-19, and the social isolation necessary to contain the spread of the virus, are weighing heavily on emotional well-being. This […]

COVID-19 has unique implications for child populations regarding physical health, mental development, and social well-being. Although evidence indicates that children are less susceptible to the more severe physical symptoms of COVID-19 that are reported in adults, emerging evidence points to new short- and long-term impacts that will affect children’s health long after the pandemic is […]

Download an overview of this event for easy sharing » Health care providers are facing prolonged financial pressure as COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S. Congress and the administration have pursued several actions to deliver aid to hospitals, health systems, and outpatient health care practices. The largest source of federal aid is the Provider […]

This panel explored the role of data sharing, interoperability, and health IT in tracking and stemming the spread of COVID-19. Panelists: Ravi Chawla, MBA, M.S., Vice President of Informatics, Independence Blue Cross Kenneth Mandl, M.D., MPH, Director of Computational Health Informatics, Boston Children’s Hospital Deven McGraw, J.D., MPH, LLM, Cofounder and Chief Regulatory Officer, Ciitizen […]

Event Description On July 14 2020, Chris P. Austin, M.D., director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) joined us for a conversation about leveraging data analytics to advance our understanding and treatment of COVID-19. Dr. Austin and his team at the NIH recently launched the […]