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China's Halting Leap Forward With Childhood Cancer Care

Ting Shi

September 05, 2019 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: China, Shanghai

Despite being faced with many limitations, China is trying to improve treatments and overall outcomes for childhood cancer patients. Although the country is still pushing for further success, hospitals so far have seen an improvement in diagnosis rates, coverage rates and survival rates across China due to better data sharing and collaboration efforts.

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New Hospital in Hong Kong Boosts Childhood Cancer Care

Ting Shi

September 05, 2019 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: Hong Kong

Treating childhood cancer has proved to be difficult in Hong Kong with specialists spread across various regions, but a new hospital has addressed this by introducing "a one-stop childhood cancer center." In a country where childhood illnesses are completely covered by health insurance, this newest asset is an additional relief for families that are battling childhood cancer.

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How the Eastern Cherokee in North Carolina use casino profits to revamp health care

Katja Ridderbusch

July 19, 2019 |

The Charlotte Observer |

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Response Location: United States, Cherokee, North Carolina

Opting out of US Indian Health Services affords indigenous communities the opportunity to improve their healthcare options. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, North Carolina, has used profits from the tribe’s casino to help fund a new health care system for their community. In addition to the revenue from the casino resort, the Cherokee Indian Hospital benefits from reimbursements from Medicaid and Medicare. This self-governance in healthcare has improved medical outcomes in the community.

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German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the U.S.?

Noam N. Levey

June 19, 2019 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: Germany

The United States is currently facing a rise in the cost of specialty drugs, but the nation may be able to learn from Germany's successful approach to a drug pricing initiative. Based on keeping government involvement to a minimum, new drugs must go through a series of evaluations with a non-governmental agency before entering the market to prove that the new drug has an added benefit compared to the existing drug therapies.

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How Agile working can solve tough challenges

Megan Clement

June 14, 2019 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Chile

To solve its country's toughest problems, the government of Chile, and its Government Lab, applies a problem-solving framework called Agile working. The methodology, which the Lab applies to 70% of its projects, involves an iterative approach to problems.

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A path to success

Angela K. Evans

May 30, 2019 |

Boulder Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

In Colorado, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing have partnered to help former incarcerated individuals obtain Medicaid upon re-entry. The partnership allows for data sharing between the two departments to make sure people are leaving correctional facilities with health care in hand, and trains parole officers to help them enroll and use the benefits.

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Mobile Health Clinic Unveiled To Serve Uninsured While Lowering Emergency Room Use

Erik Neumann

March 21, 2019 |

KUER Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

In Utah, expanding health care access is taking shape in the form of RVs equipped with exam rooms, medical assistants and a nurse. Specifically designed to serve uninsured community members, the newest mobile health clinic offers "a specialized focus on women’s health, as well as mental health and substance abuse services, including medication assisted treatment which is used to help wean people of opioids."

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Why Every Black Woman Deserves a Doula

Collier Meyerson

March 05, 2019 |

New York Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, New York

Birth and pregnancy coaches lessen the disproportionately high risk of death from complications in maternal care suffered by black women in the United States. Women in states that provide consultation with a doula, a trained professional who acts as both health aide and advocate for the patient, under Medicare coverage have seen positive effects. Following the precedent of a program in Minnesota that reimburses doulas through Medicaid, New York has rolled out pilot doula programs in select counties.

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Immigrants here illegally were waiting until near death to get dialysis. A new Colorado policy changes that.

Jennifer Brown

February 25, 2019 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

Throughout the US, the majority of states have policy in place that dictates against treating immigrants there illegally for kidney failure until it reaches emergent conditions, costing states millions of dollars each year. Colorado, however, recently became the sixth state to enact a new policy that allows Medicaid to cover regular dialysis treatments, saving the state $17 million per year and decreasing physician burnout from treating such severe cases.

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Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All

Alice Park

February 23, 2019 |

Time Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

Bringing nutrition and diet under the purview of a patient’s medical care helps reduce lifetime healthcare risks and costs. The Fresh Food Farmacy, part of the Geisinger Health System in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, helps provide patients who are food-insecure with access to healthy foods alongside healthcare support and sessions with nutritionists. By discussing diet in terms of doses and investing in preventative care, the program aims to help patients understand food as part of their overall wellbeing.

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