MHPF Highlights
What Can Massachusetts Learn from the German Health Care System?
Health Care Costs on the Rise
New England Cable News Interviews Michael Doonan, Executive Director
MHPF in the News
Lean, Mean, Learning Machines
Top Health Official Pledges Action on Childhood Obesity
Press Releases
Release 5.30.07
Medicare Part D: Successes and Continuing Challenges
Release 5.14.07
One Year Checkup: The Prognosis of Healthcare Reform in Massachusetts
Forum held on July 9, 2008
What Can Massachusetts Learn from the German Health Care System? A Conversation between German Health Minister, Ulla Schmidt and Professor Uwe Reinhardt
Featured speakers included the Health Minister of Germany, Ulla Schmidt and noted Health Economist Uwe Reinhardt.
Germany is in the process of implementing an individual mandate similar to Massachusetts. They recently enacted a series of reforms to control costs and increase quallity using competition between health plans and the greater use of disease management. The German system has multiple sickness funds, private hospitals and physicians with a system of subsidies for families and individuals with low incomes. This was an opportunity to learn from the German experience. 
Forum held on June 19, 2008
Childhood Obesity in Massachusetts: Costs, Consequences and Opportunities for Change
Nearly 30 percent of children in Massachusetts are overweight or obese, and the number of overweight children has more than tripled in the past three decades. Unchecked, the individual and public health costs and consequences of this epidemic will become increasingly severe.
At this forum the latest data on the extent of this epidemic, cost consequences, and potential solutions for improving child nutrition and physical fitness will be presented.
Featured speakers will include Commissioner of Public Health, John Auerbach, the Senate Chair of the Committee on Public Health, Susan Fargo, the Mayor of Somerville, Joseph A. Curtatone, and Superintendent of Worcester Public Schools, James A. Caradonio.
This event is co-sponsored by The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation's Growing up Healthy Initiative.
Forum held on December 5, 2007
Health Information Technology in Massachusetts. A Private/Public Partnership?
What Should the State’s Role be in Facilitating Health IT Adoption?
Health leaders from public, private and academic sectors focused on Massachusetts’ roadmap to leadership in health IT. Speakers included Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and Senator Richard T. Moore, and featured nationally-renowned experts in health IT, including John Glaser, Ph.D., John Halamka, M.D., Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., James Roosevelt, Jr., J.D., John McDonough, DPH, and David Blumenthal, M.D. Experts in health IT adoption provided national and state perspectives focusing on progress to date, including the latest information on Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. A panel discussion considered the role of the state and private sector in promoting and financing expansion of health IT, and the possibility of developing a broad and systematic roadmap for state-wide adoption of health IT.