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Welcome to the Alliance for Health Reform's Find-an-Expert service. The service is a quick way for those involved in news production to find experts in 36 major health policy topics - such as health care costs, Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drugs and the uninsured - and more than 200 subtopics.

Those using the service can narrow searches to experts who:

  • Live in a particular state or media market
  • Take after hours calls from reporters
  • Can put reporters in contact with "real people"
  • Have B-roll for television
  • Can conduct interviews in Spanish or another language other than English
If you're a working reporter, editorial writer, producer or otherwise involved in news production, we invite you to register by clicking here. (FYI, we don't keep "cookies" from reporters registering.) If you’ve already registered, please click here.

If you're on deadline and don't have time to register now, call the Alliance at 202/789-2300 or email us at info@allhealth.org, and we will help you find an expert.

Thank you for your interest.

 

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New Issue Brief: Health Information Technology -- More Than the Money


Some health policy analysts believe that the main importance of health information technology lies in its potential for improving health care quality and reducing disparities -- whether it saves money or not. This issue brief explores the quality improvement aspects of health IT, and some barriers to its wider adoption. Written by Alliance health policy associate Deanna Okrent with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  To download, click here.  

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Issue Brief: Comparative Effectiveness


Comparative effectiveness research offers the attractive prospect of cutting costs while improving the quality of health care. What exactly do comparative effectiveness studies compare? What research of this type is already underway in the U.S. and in other countries? What could we do to stimulate more of it? This issue brief, written by Alliance senior health policy associate Lisa Swirsky, addresses these questions and others. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To download, click here.

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How Wide Has the Window Opened for Health Reform?


Now that we know the next occupants of the White House and the composition of the next Congress, many Americans expect to see an effort to enact significant reform of America’s health system. What are the prospects for expanding health coverage to the uninsured, given the recession? Will we see workable approaches to constraining health care costs and improving quality? Could the tax treatment of employer-sponsored health benefits change? Who will be the key players in health reform – in the Senate, the House and the Obama Administration? Can we avoid the hurdles encountered during previous efforts at significant health reform? This briefing, sponsored by the Alliance and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, addressed these and related questions.

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