The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar. Phillips, Jr.

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The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 29, 2014

At first glance, federal nutrition policy seemed to be an unusual topic for our Georgetown Health Policy Seminar for family physicians. As described in a recent JAMA Internal Medicine editorial , future doctors receive little formal instruction about healthy dietary habits. and MyPlate. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L.

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The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 7, 2013

To supporters of the Affordable Care Act, legislative expansion of the Medicaid program is a welcome financial and health care bonanza for states and uninsured patients. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Kenny Lin, MD Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 20, 2013

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed two examples, anemia drugs and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) , which were prominently featured in recent articles by Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post. for three more years, during which thousands of new patients were prescribed the drug.

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