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Solving the disjuncture between research and practice: telehealth trends in the 21st centuryEdward Alan Miller
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Departments of Political Science and Community Health, and Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, 67 George Street, Providence, RI 02912 1977, United States of America
Health Policy 82:133-41. 2007....
Reforming long-term care in the United States: findings from a national survey of specialistsEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Gerontologist 50:238-52. 2010..Thus, to inform long-term care (LTC) reform efforts, we conducted a Web-based survey of 1,147 LTC specialists nationwide...- Geography still dictates Rx coverage for many near-poor seniors and disabled personsEdward Alan Miller
The A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, 67 George St, Box 1977, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 19:77-96. 2007..The purpose of this article is to address the role that state policies play in promoting continued variation in access to prescription drugs... - Health information Websites: characteristics of US users by race and ethnicityE A Miller
A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Telemed Telecare 13:298-302. 2007..That some minority groups are less likely to use the World Wide Web for health information may further compound existing disparities. One place where this problem may be addressed is in the nation's schools... - Mental illness and use of home care nationally in the U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsEdward Alan Miller
A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:1046-56. 2007..To determine whether patients with mental health diagnoses are more likely to utilize home-based primary care (HBPC), and to identify characteristics associated with HBPC admission among elderly and nonelderly veterans, specifically... - Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of utility scores in Alzheimer's diseaseEdward Alan Miller
Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 1977, USA
Value Health 11:1120-30. 2008.... 
Meeting the demographic challenges ahead: Toward culture change in an ageing New ZealandEdward Alan Miller
A, Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, and Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Aust New Zealand Health Policy 5:5. 2008....- Assessing the relationship between health utilities, quality of life, and health services use in Alzheimer's diseaseEdward Alan Miller
Department of Political Science, Centers for Public Policy and Gerontology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 1977, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 24:96-105. 2009..To examine the relationship between use of multiple health services and health utilities, quality of life and other factors in Alzheimer's disease (AD)... - Commentary: navigating the labyrinth of long-term care: shoring up informal caregiving in a home- and community-based worldEdward Alan Miller
A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 1977, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 21:1-16. 2009..This essay argues that growing government emphasis on rebalancing long-term care away from nursing homes will founder unless public officials recognize increased burdens on the informal care system... - The influence of national policy change on subnational policymaking: Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement in the American statesEdward Alan Miller
Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, 67 George Street, Box 1977, Providence, RI 02912 1977, USA
Soc Sci Med 68:1926-34. 2009..Future research should clarify the ways in which national policy changes influence health policy adoption at the subnational level, both in other nations and across different levels of government... - Characteristics associated with use of public and private web sites as sources of health care information: results from a national surveyEdward Alan Miller
A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Med Care 45:245-51. 2007.... - Risk of nursing home admission in association with mental illness nationally in the Department of Veterans AffairsEdward Alan Miller
A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Med Care 44:343-51. 2006.... - State health policy making determinants, theory, and methods: a synthesisEdward Alan Millar
A Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, RI 02912, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:2639-57. 2005..Gaps are shown to exist in our understanding of the policy making effects of political system and intergovernmental characteristics... - Supporting home- and community-based care: views of long-term care specialistsDavid C Grabowski
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:82S-101S. 2010..Building on the long-term care specialists' enthusiasm for system-based reforms, we encourage state policy makers to pursue HCBS models that are linked to Medicare, engage primary care physicians, and are based on rigorous evaluations... - Weighing public and private options for reforming long-term care financing: findings from a national survey of specialistsEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:16S-37S. 2010..Findings also suggest consensus that reform of LTC financing should improve on the current public-private partnership in this area... - The taste for regulation in long-term careVincent Mor
Department of Community Health, Brown University, 121 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:38S-64S. 2010..In addition to constituency group affiliation, differences in views derived largely from respondents' ideological predispositions... - Where's the revolution? Digital technology and health care in the internet ageEdward Alan Miller
Brown University, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 34:261-84. 2009.... - The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Long-Term Care SpecialistsEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:3S-15S. 2010..Two leading experts provide commentary as well. Details of the study's methodology and issue content are described... - The affordable care act and long-term care: comprehensive reform or just tinkering around the edges?Edward Alan Miller
Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 24:101-17. 2012..This article reviews the basic problems plaguing the long-term care sector and the provisions within the ACA meant to address them. It also includes a brief overview of issue content... - Predictors of nursing home admission among Alzheimer's disease patients with psychosis and/or agitationEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology and Gerontology Institute, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 23:44-53. 2011..gov number, NCT00015548)... - Maximizing federal Medicaid dollars: nursing home provider tax adoption, 2000-2004Edward Alan Miller
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 34:899-930. 2009.... - Opinion networks among long-term care specialistsMelissa A Clark
Department of Community Health, Brown University, 121 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:102S-25S. 2010..Academic and research-based policy experts were most likely to be classified as prominent network members. Network structure was associated with attitudes toward LTC financing but not the regulation of nursing homes... - Improving direct-care compensation in nursing homes: Medicaid wage pass-through adoption, 1999-2004Edward Alan Miller
University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 37:469-512. 2012..This suggests that WPTs represent a hybrid between comprehensive and incremental policy change... - Caregiver burden, health utilities, and institutional service use in Alzheimer's diseaseEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology and Gerontology Institute, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 27:382-93. 2012..e., hospitalization, nursing home, and residential care)... - Veterans use of non-VHA services: implications for policy and planningEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Soc Work Public Health 27:379-91. 2012..These changes are especially important in light of increased demand for care among younger Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanstain and older Veterans who served in previous wars... - Nursing home organizational change: the "Culture Change" movement as viewed by long-term care specialistsSusan C Miller
Department of Community Health, Brown University, 121 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:65S-81S. 2010..Fundamental changes in the regulatory process together with targeted regulatory changes and payment incentives may also be needed... - Incidence of new-onset diabetes mellitus among patients receiving atypical neuroleptics in the treatment of mental illness: evidence from a privately insured populationEdward Alan Miller
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, 67 George Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:387-95. 2005..01) or quetiapine (HR = 0.50; p < 0.10), while diabetes risk among females did not differ significantly from first-generation antipsychotics for any atypical examined. These findings are substantially different from other reports... - Implementing small group health insurance reform: the HEALTHpact plan of Rhode IslandEdward Alan Miller
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Med Care Res Rev 68:712-24. 2011..Providing the resources necessary for effective government oversight and outreach will be critical to small group market reform nationally. So too will be promoting broker and insurer buy-in... - Flying beneath the radar of health reform: the community living assistance services and supports (CLASS) actEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Gerontologist 51:145-55. 2011..Most will continue to rely on substantial unpaid care, out-of-pocket payments when formal care is required, and Medicaid when all other money has run out... - The digital divide in public e-health: barriers to accessibility and privacy in state health department websitesDarrell M West
Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:652-67. 2006.... - Toward health reform for seniors in Bermuda: historical constraints on political possibilitiesEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 23:73-93. 2011..This suggests that widespread agreement on the challenges in meeting the health and long-term care needs of the elderly does not necessarily lead to equally commensurable solutions to addressing it... - National newspaper portrayal of U.S. nursing homes: periodic treatment of topic and toneEdward Alan Miller
Gerontology Institute, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Milbank Q 90:725-61. 2012..This study examines how nursing homes were depicted in four leading national newspapers-the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times-from 1999 to 2008... - Variation in health blog features and elements by gender, occupation, and perspectiveEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, John W McCormick School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
J Health Commun 16:726-49. 2011..Future research should build on these findings using national surveys of health bloggers and textual analysis of blog content... - Small group health insurance reform in Rhode Island: promises and pitfalls of the HEALTHpact planEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, John W McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA 02125, USA
Health Serv Res 46:285-97. 2011..This study analyzes what design elements inhibited enrollment in HEALTHpact... - The continuing need to investigate the nature and content of teleconsultation communication using interaction analysis techniquesEdward Alan Miller
Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston MA 02125 3393, USA
J Telemed Telecare 17:55-64. 2011..We do not yet have a full understanding of the subtractive and enhancing effects of telemedicine on provider-patient relations and outcomes... - Diagnosis blog: checking up on health blogs in the blogosphereEdward Alan Miller
Dept of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 02125, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1514-9. 2010..We analyzed the content and characteristics of influential health blogs and bloggers to provide a more thorough understanding of the health blogosphere than was previously available... - Bureaucratic policy making on trial: medicaid nursing facility reimbursement, 1988-1998Edward Alan Miller
Brown University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 63:189-216. 2006..Although results reveal that states with more powerful nursing home lobbies tended to implement more generous systems, they fail to reveal significant associations between cost report year and lobbying activity on behalf of the elderly... - Strategies for integrating Medicare and Medicaid: design features and incentivesEdward Alan Miller
University of Michigan, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:123-57. 2003..Future efforts would be well served by carefully considering the incentive structures designed into these initiatives and working to improve them in the next generation of Medicare-Medicaid integration efforts... - State discretion and medicaid program variation in long-term care: when is enough, enough?Edward Alan Miller
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 14:15-35. 2002.... - Balancing regulatory controls and incentives: toward smarter and more transparent oversight in long-term careEdward Alan Miller
Brown University
J Health Polit Policy Law 33:249-79. 2008.... - Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement in flux: effects of federal regulatory changes and prevailing fiscal conditions, 1978-1998Edward Alan Miller
Division of Health Policy and Administration, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 17:41-65. 2005..Given the serious ramifications reimbursement policy changes can have for nursing home residents and providers, it is imperative that the impact of federal disengagement from this policy area be understood... - Through the looking glass: toward a brighter future for long-term care in a greying New ZealandMark Booth
N Z Med J 120:U2426. 2007..It is critical that New Zealand build upon these advantages in the short term to ensure that the longer term implications of the ageing population can be met... - Modifying the Roter Interaction Analysis System to study provider-patient communication in telemedicine: promises, pitfalls, insights, and recommendationsEdward Alan Miller
Division of Health Policy and Administration, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8034, USA
Telemed J E Health 11:44-55. 2005..The more we know about what interaction patterns lead to best outcomes, the more emphasis can be placed on developing training programs and other interventions to enhance patient-provider interactions in telemedicine... - Telemedicine and doctor-patient communication: a theoretical framework for evaluationEdward Alan Miller
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
J Telemed Telecare 8:311-8. 2002..Since participants in two-way interactive video-consultations rarely meet in person, it is particularly important that the effect of substituting video for face-to-face consultations be delineated... - The technical and interpersonal aspects of telemedicine: effects on doctor-patient communicationEdward Alan Miller
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 S Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
J Telemed Telecare 9:1-7. 2003..A combined positivist and interpretivist evaluation strategy would enable researchers to make better-informed connections between telemedicine, medical encounter behaviour and health outcomes...