Archive of HAP News Items
Senior Citizens at the Top of Their League
Dr. Andy Carle was interviewed for this WJLA news report on seniors and Wii gaming. View the segment.
New Faculty Publications
Dr. Mark Meiners has a new policy paper on long-term care financing as part of the Long-Term Care Insurance partnership Program. Read the policy paper.
An article by Dr. Jack Hadley was published in Milbank Quarterly on the relationship between changes in physicians' incomes and practice settings and their care to Medicaid and charity patients. Read the abstract.
Collegial Hand for Seniors
Program in Assisted Living and Senior Housing Administration is featured in the Washington Times. Read the full article.
New Programs in Risk Management and Patient Safety
A new Certificate Program and Graduate Concentration in Risk Management and Patient Safety has been approved.
HAP Faculty Receives Research Award
HAP Faculty Jack Hadley has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study "High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: The Roles of Physician Practice and Health System Factors". The goal of this research is to identify physician practice and market characteristics that contribute to high Medicare costs by analyzing care delivered to high-cost beneficiaries. Since the costliest 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries account for 85 percent of total spending, even modest improvements in the cost effectiveness of their care would have significant fiscal benefits.
HAP Post-Doc Receives Award
Janusz Wojtusiak, post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Health
Administration and Policy, received the best poster presentation
award at the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications in Cincinnati, OH, December 13-15, 2007, for the paper "The
Natural Induction System AQ21 and Its Application to Data Describing
Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: Initial Results." The paper
authored by Janusz Wojtusiak, Ryszard Michalski, Thipkesone Simanivanh,
and Anna Baranova is available from the website of the GMU Machine
Learning and Inference Laboratory (www.mli.gmu.edu),
which has recently moved to the Department of Health Administration
and Policy.
HAP Faculty featured in Intelligencer Tech Series
Andy Carle discusses marketing campaigns that target the aging baby
boomer population, and the impact of technology evolution on society
in Part
II and Part
III of this Tech Series.
Recent Faculty Publications
Yang YT, Studdert DS, Subramanian SV, Mello MM. A longitudinal analysis of the impact of liability pressure on the supply of obstetrician-gynecologists. J Empirical Leg Stud 2008;5(1):21–53. Available from Blackwell Synergy.
Sinkule JA, Alemi F. Helping clients think through their causal models:
application to counseling clients to exercise. Qual Manag Health Care.
2008 Jan-Mar;17(1):66-79.
Alemi F, Moore S, Baghi H. Self-Experiments and Analytical Relapse
Prevention. Qual Manag Health Care. 2008 January/March;17(1):53-65.
Wojtusiak J, Michalski RS. Analyzing Diaries for Analytical Relapse
Prevention Using Natural Induction: A Method and Preliminary Results.
Qual Manag Health Care. 2008 January/March;17(1):80-89.
New Spring Course Offerings from HAP!
- HAP 762 - Cost-Effectiveness for Health
Care Management and Policy Decisions
- HAP 764 - Health Policy and Government Payment Systems for Health Care Services
Health Policy electives are open to all GMU graduate students. View Flyer.
Mason Establishes First International and Niche Housing
Internships for Assisted Living Students
Building on its national reputation for innovative curricula, the
Mason Program in Assisted Living/Senior Housing Administration has
implemented two first-in-industry internships to be completed by
students during the fall 2007 semester. Read
more in the Gazette.
Online HAP Course Offerings
Spring 2008 Online Course Offerings for the Certificate in Health
Information Systems Program and the Master of Science in Health
Systems Management, Concentration in Health Information Systemsare
available at our Distance
Education Website.
HAP Faculty featured on NPR
Andy Carle was interviewed on the NPR show "To The Point" on
September 12, 2007. Listen
to the Podcast on KCRW's site. Mr. Carle's segment begins at
approximately 42:00 minutes.
Two New Publications Accepted for Publication from the Center
for Discovery Science and Health Informatics
The Health Informatics area of the Center have produced two articles accepted
for publication. Read more on our Faculty
Achievements Page.
Assisted Living Alum now Executive Director
Congratulations to Assisted Living alum Kwaku Boateng for his promotion
to an Executive Director position at Sunrise Senior Living. Kwaku
was also the recipient of the Rachel Merrit Award for Senior Housing
in Spring 2007.
George
Mason University Professor To Address Challenges For Treating
People With Chronic Illnesses
George Mason University professor Mark Meiners was recently awarded
a $535,000 grant with the San Diego Long-Term Care Integration Project
and the University of California San Diego to develop a coordinated
approach to chronic care management that advocates team-based care
in a health care system that is increasingly fragmented and built
to deliver acute care. If the program is successful in San Diego,
the research may be used to help develop programs nationwide. Read
the full press release. Dr. Meiner's work is also featured in
a 7/5
Washington Post article.
Mason Professor
Lists Top 'Brain Games' for Older Adults
Responding to a study estimating a quadrupling of individuals suffering
from Alzheimer’s disease by 2050, Mason professor Andrew Carle
has released a list of the best “brain games” available
for those seeking to maximize cognitive function. Read
more of this article in the Mason Gazette.
Web Based Aging and Disability
Resource Connection: The San Diego Network of Care Project
Mark Meiners recently presented at the Human-Computer
Interaction Lab 24th Annual Symposium, "Health Informatics in
An Aging Population Workshop". View
his presentation here.
Online
Extra: Brain Aerobics
With a boomer turning 60 every seven seconds, gaming companies
are targeting an older market. Andrew Carle, assistant professor
and director of George Mason University’s Program in Assisted Living/Senior
Housing, takes a look at Nintendo’s Brain Age.
Policy
Brief: Long-Term Care Partnership Expansion: A New Opportunity
for States
The Center for Health Care Strategies, the National Association of
State Medicaid Directors and George Mason University are working
to inform states about new long-term-care options made available
through the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. For more information,
contact Mark Meiners.
Disney Internship
Provides Insight on Hospitality in Assisted Living
Guests at the Grand Floridian Resort, located within view of the
Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Fla., enjoy all the amenities
available from the vacation destination’s premier resort. But for Maria Pokorny, a Mason student completing
a semester internship in hospitality services at the hotel, the experience has
provided a model for improving care for people with Alzheimer’s and related
dementia. Read more in the Mason
Gazette.
Video:
Dive Into This Techno-World
In this Video from AARP Bulletin, Andrew Carle talks about how he thinks
technology can be used to enhance the lives of older people.
Train
your Brain - Alzheimer's Research
Fox News recently aired three video segments on the subject of "Brain Training" featuring
Andy Carle. View the clips here:
Buying
Old-Age Insurance
Dr. Mark Meiners and the Partnership for Long Term Care are featured in this
Wall Street Journal article (registraton required). From the article - "Under
the partnership program, you buy a private long-term-care policy that has received
your state's stamp of approval. If those insurance benefits run out, you can
apply for Medicaid to help cover any additional costs -- and keep assets equal
in value to the insurance benefits received." The program is available
in California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana and New York. The other states have
leeway to start similar programs, and at least 25 are expected to do so in the
next few years.
Mason Announces
2006 Health Care Quality Improvement Awards
Mason’s Department of Health Administration and Policy in the
College of Health and Human Services announced the three winners of
its annual Improvement of the Year Award. This competitive award was
created to recognize teams from mid-Atlantic health organizations that
have significantly improved the quality of care in their hospitals
or health care systems.
This year’s Improvement of the Year award winners are Centra Health Lynchburg General Hospital (Lynchburg, Va.), Union Hospital (Elkton, Md.), and Fauquier Hospital (Warrenton, Va.). Read more in the Mason Gazette.
2006/2007
Policy Research Mentorship Program Fellows Announced
CHPRE recently announced the recipients of the 2006/2007 PRMP Fellows. View
the Press Release. (pdf)