Articles related to Health Information Technology

• Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology, Congressional Budget Office, May 2008
  
• The Value Of Electronic Health Records In Solo Or Small Group Practices.  Miller et al. Health Affairs.2005; 24: 1127-1137
  
• Improving the quality of healthcare through health information exchange - selected findings from eHealth Initiative's third annual survey of health information exchange activities at the state, regional, and local levels.  September 25, 2006. eHealth Initiative
• State eHealth Activities in 2007. Findings from a State Survey  Commonwealth Fund
• Personal Health Records and Personal Health Record Systems. 
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Articles & Resources on Sustainability of Health Information Technology

• eHealth Initiative, Value & Sustainability Model & Toolkit
• Creating Sustainable Local Health Information Exchanges: Can Barriers to Stakeholder Participation be Overcome? Center for Studying Health System Change, Research Brief: Feb.2008:2
• State E-Health Activities in 2007: Findings from a State Survey.  Commonwealth Fund, February 15, 2008

Articles Related to Health Care Costs

• Presentation to the National Governors Association's Health and Human Services Committee.  The Outlook for Spending: Health Care and Long Term Care, Congresisonal Budget Office, February, 2008.
• Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending, Congresisonal Budget Office, February, 2008.
• Technology Change and the Growth of Health Care Spending. Congresisonal Budget Office, January, 2008.
• Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments:  Issues and Options for an Expanded Federal Role. Congresisonal Budget Office, December, 2007.
• The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending, Congresisonal Budget Office, November, 2008.
• Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program, MedPac July, 2007.
• Report to Congress, Medicare Payment Policy , MedPac March, 2008. 
• States in Action: A Bimonthly Look at Innovations in Health Policy, February/March 2008  
• Bending the Curve:  Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in U.S. Health Spending, The Commonwealth Fund, December 2007.

Prescription Drugs

• Prescription Drug Trends Fact Sheet - May 2007 Update, Kaiser Family Foundation
  
• The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit - An Updated Fact Sheet

Health Care

• Unhealthy Trends: The Future of Physician Services. Health Affairs, 26, no. 6, 2007.
• Achieving a High-Performing Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2008:148.
• States in Action: A Bimonthly Look at Innovations in Health Care. Commonwealth Fund, February 27, 2008

Physician Supply

• The Impending Collapse of Primary Car Medicine and Its Implications for the State of the Nation's Health Care: A Report from the American College of Physicians, January 30, 2006

Web Sites to Watch

The following websites regularly present new articles on health care research, policy and practice.

• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• The Commonwealth Foundation
• The Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Institute of Medicine
• The Journal of Health Affairs
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• The American College of Physicians
• The American Medical Society
• The eHealth Initiative
• The Congressional Budget Office
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicare
• MedPac
• The Centers for Disease Control
• The National Center for Health Statistics
• Center for Studying Health System Change