Browsing: Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Care Administration , Social EM

How Much Will This Cost?

3/6/2023 Thuy Nguyen, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD
Policies that are helping improve the transparency of hospital bills are also shining a light on why self-paying patients might go out of their way to avoid the nearest medical care. Take a closer loo
Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Care Administration , Social EM

Equitable or Equivocal?

2/6/2023 Rachel Kelly, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD
Hospitals get penalized when patients are readmitted, Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, or HRRP. A plan to take social determinants of health into account is meant to make sure penal
Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Care Administration , Social EM

Expanding Coverage, Saving Lives

1/7/2023 Fathima Haseefa , Vidya Eswaran, MD
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. An analysis shows that Medicaid expansion can help avert suicide by overcoming financial barriers to mental health care.
Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Equity , Health Care Administration , Social EM , COVID-19 , Administration & Operations

A New Pandemic

10/6/2022 Rachel Kelly, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD
The effects of COVID-19 on the health care system continue to evolve. While patients stayed away during lockdown, they are now flooding emergency departments with more acute illnesses due to lack of p
Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Equity , Health Care Administration , Social EM , COVID-19 , Administration & Operations

GREAT SHOT

9/6/2022 Laura Haselden, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD
COVID-19 vaccine campaigns saved lives and reduced the number and severity of COVID cases in the United States. What did this mean to the business of health care? Significant cost savings.
Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Equity , Health Care Administration , Social EM

BIGGER IS BETTER

8/6/2022 Nicholas S. Imperato , Vidya Eswaran, MD
Studies are showing that Medicaid expansion - and its resulting increased access to primary care - could help alleviate emergency department crowding and ensure the department is able to focus on pati
Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Social EM , OB/GYN

Health Policy Journal Club: Bullet on Board

6/6/2022 Diana Halloran, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD
A new study shows how firearm restrictions reduce the deaths of pregnant women and new mothers. The Health Policy Journal Club highlights what that can mean for emergency medicine.
International EM , Social EM , Leadership , Disaster Medicine

The War in Ukraine: How Can Emergency Physicians Help?

4/21/2022 Daria Hunter, MD , Rebecca Leff, MD , Colin Bucks, MD
The crisis in Ukraine has created a pivotal time for emergency physicians to provide the right type of aid and, eventually, help bolster EM education and practice within Ukrainian health care.
COVID-19 , Social EM

COVID-19 Vaccine Equity and Distribution in Emergency Departments

4/10/2022 Rachel Kearney, MPH , Olivia Reszczynski , Nick Friedman , Dominique Gelmann , Aneeqah Naeem , Alic Lu , Sherman Leung
Social EMpathy is a working group of medical students, residents, and faculty interested in social emergency medicine working together to organize initiatives in social EM topics. As part of Social E
Social EM , Toxicology

Coastal Harmful Algal Blooms and Climate Change – Toxic Challenges for Emergency Medicine

4/10/2022 Catharina Giudice, MD , Caitlin S Rublee, MD, MPH , Priya Srihari, MD
Climate health and public health are linked in ways that become more obvious every year. In this context, we will summarize the marine toxins that are sending more patients to the emergency department

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Health Inequity and Social Emergency Medicine

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Addressing Social Needs In and Out of the ED

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