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Extending work on assessing and addressing legal barriers to health system reform
This funding supports the long-standing Legal Barriers Project while the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awaits an independent assessment of the project that will inform plans for a longer-term reauthorization. The primary focus for the Legal Barriers Project during this four-month grant will be the Health Information and the Law website (www.healthinfolaw.org) the Legal Barriers Project launched in May 2012. This website is a dynamic resource on legal issues related to health-system reforms that involve the use and exchange of health information. Because so many delivery-system and payment reforms depend on the creation, use, and exchange of health information, and many legal barriers to reform involve restrictions on information, the project created this library of relevant state and federal laws. At the launch, the website included state laws for the 15 states with RWJF Aligning Forces for Quality grantees, as well as major federal laws. The project will continue to add states and expand federal content, and will start adding 50 state comparisons on certain topics. Beyond the analysis of state and federal laws, the website will provide a platform for high-level analysis of health-system reform, connecting to other Foundation projects, such as Health Reform GPS and Aligning Forces.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $200,000.00
Awarded on: 8/24/2012
Time frame: 9/1/2012 - 12/31/2012
Grant Number: 70311
Grantee
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Ross Hall 719
2300 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, DC, 20052-0011
202-994-2160
Website
Lara Cartwright-Smith
Project Director
202-994-8641
Email
Sara Rosenbaum
Project Director
202-530-2343
Email