I was wondering if anybody has good websites or other sources that will keep me up to date on the latest medical issues. Aslo is there a website that gives explantation of health care reforms, ie HMO PPO. Thanks for any help
Keeping up to date on medical issues
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Off the top of my head, here are some good sites covering bioethics, problems with medicine, etc. And of course, sdn.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~knauft/resources/index.html
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/index.htm
http://www.thecbc.org/dc.html
http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/
Off the top of my head, here are some good sites covering bioethics, problems with medicine, etc. And of course, sdn.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~knauft/resources/index.html
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/index.htm
http://www.thecbc.org/dc.html
http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/
I would subscribe to MMWR at the CDC - the morbidity and mortality weekly report. It's about as current as you can get in terms of disease tracking and epi for the US. Their short articles focus on very current health issues and/or outbreaks. Definitely a must read for anyone interested in public health or infectious diseases.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
You can subscribe for it to be emailed to you weekly.
For relatively recent information on health services and policy i.e. Medicare Medicaid, uninsured, HMO/PPO/MSA, care for the elderly, financing health care, my favorite site is the Kasier Family Foudation. Their articles are short and to the point and offer a policy perspective on current issues in health care. We used this website extensively in our health policy and management courses in my MPH program.
http://www.kff.org
In terms of in depth peer-reviewed material, Health Affairs is a great journal for health policy, services, adminstration, management, etc, although you may need to subscribe to it if you dont have institutional access. Again, very heavily used in our HPM coures.
http://www.healthaffairs.org
Another great one is the Milbank Quarterly for health policy. I believe it is free. Again, great articles for those interested in the latest in HPM
http://www.milbank.org/quarterly.html
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
You can subscribe for it to be emailed to you weekly.
For relatively recent information on health services and policy i.e. Medicare Medicaid, uninsured, HMO/PPO/MSA, care for the elderly, financing health care, my favorite site is the Kasier Family Foudation. Their articles are short and to the point and offer a policy perspective on current issues in health care. We used this website extensively in our health policy and management courses in my MPH program.
http://www.kff.org
In terms of in depth peer-reviewed material, Health Affairs is a great journal for health policy, services, adminstration, management, etc, although you may need to subscribe to it if you dont have institutional access. Again, very heavily used in our HPM coures.
http://www.healthaffairs.org
Another great one is the Milbank Quarterly for health policy. I believe it is free. Again, great articles for those interested in the latest in HPM
http://www.milbank.org/quarterly.html
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As far as current events, you can always find some interesting stuff at www.cnn.com under the health section. NYtimes is also available online and free, but you do have to sign up. The sites listed above are also good, especially the Kaiser site. 
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The National AMSA website has excellent information in various forms for "hot" topics that you should know (for example lack of universal healthcare in U.S and malpractice).
http://www.amsa.org/about/priorities.cfm (scroll down a bit to find the "Issues" section)
The universal healthcare and malpractice primers they provide are very thorough yet concise enough. They quickly explain the history and causes of the problems as well as offer some very fitting potential solutions. Once you read those, they have summaries and Powerpoints to help highlight the main points of the articles.
If I had to choose one source for reading up on healthcare issues, this would be it.
http://www.amsa.org/about/priorities.cfm (scroll down a bit to find the "Issues" section)
The universal healthcare and malpractice primers they provide are very thorough yet concise enough. They quickly explain the history and causes of the problems as well as offer some very fitting potential solutions. Once you read those, they have summaries and Powerpoints to help highlight the main points of the articles.
If I had to choose one source for reading up on healthcare issues, this would be it.
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medscape.com is quite informative as well.
If you want to appear well-informed for interviews, just read a decent newspaper a few times a week. Grab the Science section from NYTimes on Tuesday (or on the web), and pick up the Wall Street Journal a few times a week, Marketplace (second) section. Scan the WSJ headlines on the front page to see if they have a big pharma or healthcare article; generally there is at least one a week.
The WSJ has better health reporting overall than NYT. This isn't just "ooh, phen-fen is bad" type articles, it's "here's an important study that just came out and will change health care policy" type articles. WSJ isn't free on the web, but most schools have some professor or office that subscribes and never reads it.
Today's paper had a good article on how the new Medicare discount cards don't actually result in a very big discount.
The WSJ has better health reporting overall than NYT. This isn't just "ooh, phen-fen is bad" type articles, it's "here's an important study that just came out and will change health care policy" type articles. WSJ isn't free on the web, but most schools have some professor or office that subscribes and never reads it.
Today's paper had a good article on how the new Medicare discount cards don't actually result in a very big discount.
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I used to read WSJ before my mind went to mush for the summer...I also like to read the BBC's online Health site, because it has global news and also, if there's an article you find interesting, there are links to previous/other articles dealing with the same or similar topics.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/default.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/default.stm
Some books on healthcare that are really great:
Our Unsystematic Health Care System by Grace Budrys
Sociology of health and illness: critical perspectives by Peter Conrad
Mama might be better off dead by Katie Abraham
The info I got out of these books made my interviews go sooo much smoother...they have general info about our health care system including topics like medicare, medicaid, universal health care, ethical issues, cultural competency
Our Unsystematic Health Care System by Grace Budrys
Sociology of health and illness: critical perspectives by Peter Conrad
Mama might be better off dead by Katie Abraham
The info I got out of these books made my interviews go sooo much smoother...they have general info about our health care system including topics like medicare, medicaid, universal health care, ethical issues, cultural competency
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To add to MikeDC's list of books, there's one basic healthcare primer that served me incredibly well before my interviews:
Understanding Health Policy, K. Grumbach, MD and T. Bodenheimer, MD
This was an extremely well-organized and well-written introduction to the major health policy topics on the table today. They use lots of descriptive examples and vignettes to illustrate the complexity of the issues, which was helpful. I can't recommend this book more highly.
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Understanding Health Policy, K. Grumbach, MD and T. Bodenheimer, MD
This was an extremely well-organized and well-written introduction to the major health policy topics on the table today. They use lots of descriptive examples and vignettes to illustrate the complexity of the issues, which was helpful. I can't recommend this book more highly.
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