Health Insurance Marketplace The new Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM) will open for enrollment on October 1, 2013. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has updated HealthCare.gov to make it easy for consumers to sign up for coverage. For Spanish-speaking consumers, CuidadoDeSalud.gov also will be updated to match...

 HHS will host The Health Care Law – Health Insurance Marketplace 101 webinars, which will include information on how consumers can access care in their communities. The webinars will be held on the following dates: • August 7, 2013 at 3:00pm EDT (Click here to register)

A growing evidence base supports specific strategies to prevent adverse drug events (ADEs), according to a new patient safety primer on Medication Errors, posted online on the AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet). The primer outlines strategies providers can use at each stage of the medication use pathway—prescribing, transcribing, dispensing,...

Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women’s Health announces the availability of Quick Health Data Online, an interactive tool that provides state and county-level data, by gender and race/ethnicity while looking at a variety of health status indicators. The tool is available at: http://www.healthstatus2020.com/owh/ (click on the Start...

With funding from the Administration for Children and Families, Futures Without Violence’s National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence has developed a toolkit that will help providers in the screening of domestic violence. The toolkit can be found at www.healthcaresaboutipv.org.

This brief reports on eligibility among rural primary care providers for the Primary Care Incentive Payments established in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Using the National Provider Identifier files and the lists of providers eligible to receive the payments, we found that the number and proportion of...