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  1. Issue Brief: Utilization Management Post-Inflation Reduction Act and the Threat to Healthy Aging

    Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, healthcare systems in the United States are facing many changes in the name of saving costs and creating efficiencies. But do the benefits actually outweigh the costs?  GCOA’s issue brief, “Utilization Management Post-Inflation Reduction Act and the Threat to Healthy Aging,” addresses the unintended negative consequences…

  2. Report on the Business Value of Preventive Health

    This new GCOA paper, launched ahead of Silver Economy Forum 2024, examines how industry leaders are creating business value, engaging their workforce, improving productivity and economic value, and advancing top private-sector priorities by taking action on preventive health for their employees through employee benefits and policies, such as supporting access to adult immunization, mental health…

  3. Report on Heart Valve Disease and the Health Effects of Ageism

    Despite tremendous scientific innovation and the availability of advanced treatments, ageist systems, attitudes, and beliefs continue to place countless lives at unnecessary risk by preventing timely access to care and treatment. The paper shares evidence of ageism’s impact on health outcomes and system costs and outlines concrete steps for stakeholders to take in the fight…

  4. Policy Brief: The Risks of Prescription Drug Affordability Boards and the Importance of Innovation for Healthy Aging and Health Equity

    On June 6, 2024, The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) Alliance for Health Innovation convened a roundtable discussion of cross-sectoral experts representing patients, caregivers, academia, biopharmaceutical innovators, and business communities to discuss Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs), Upper Payment Limits (UPLs), and the risk they pose to the innovation that is needed to safeguard healthy…

  5. The Role of ICTs in Addressing the Challenges of Anti Microbial Resistance

    At the World Summit on the Information Society, May 30, 2024, GCOA hosted a panel discussion on the global health crisis that is AMR and how technology can, should and will have an impact through diagnostics, surveillance, and innovative developments.  AMR will be responsible for 10 million deaths annually by 2050 – on track to…

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