Technology & Healthcare – Access & Affordability

NEW DELHI, INDIA & MALE, MALDIVES: The American Center in New Delhi, India and in Male, Maldives, along with the Indian School of Business, have jointly hosted a webinar by Adam C. Powell, Ph.D. on the role of technology in driving healthcare access and affordability. Dr. Powell began his presentation by providing a history of the changes that have occurred in the United States as a result of the HITECH Act and the Affordable Care Act, before venturing into recent […]

Dr. Concannon recognized for his research on comparative effectiveness

BOSTON – April 24, 2012: The American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, recently released a review of the most important papers on health costs, cost-effectiveness, and resource utilization. The list featured one of Dr. Thomas Concannon’s papers, and cited two of them. The paper featured on the list, “Comparative effectiveness of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction regionalization strategies,” compared several scenarios for increasing access to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Dr. Concannon and colleagues […]