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  FDA warnings on antidepressants may have backfired

  Changes in antidepressant use may have led to more teen suicide attempts.
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  Families like practical wellness program

  Group Health tests behavioral treatment for obesity in real-world setting
• 7 big cost-cutting ideas from the Birnbaum panel

  With the nation’s health care cost crisis worsening, we invited three leading experts on the topic to address Group Health’s annual Birnbaum Endowed Lecture. Challenging our community to deliver on its promise of affordable care for all, the panel offered plenty of ideas—along with some comic relief.
• Medical home adds value beyond electronic health record

  Electronic health records (EHRs) are one part of the patient-centered medical home. But improved health care quality is related to other aspects of the medical home, not just EHRs, according to an invited editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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  Digital mammograms have raised costs with only small health benefits

  The trend toward digital mammograms was given a mixed report card in the study Benefits, Harms, and Costs for Breast Cancer Screening After U.S. Implementation of Digital Mammography e-published on May 28 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
• Triple wins for the 2014 Birnbaum Award

  Each year at the Birnbaum Lecture, Group Health Research Institute presents the Birnbaum Award to Group Health staff who’ve made extraordinary contributions to the organization’s development as a learning health care system. At the 2014 Lecture, the award will be presented to people involved in three outstanding projects, all funded by Group Health’s Partnership for Innovation.
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  Dr. Buist named senior scholar in residence at AcademyHealth

  Diana Buist, PhD, MPH, is joining AcademyHealth as a Senior Scholar in Residence starting this month. In this position, she will apply her expertise in delivery system and multi-site projects to efforts to improve research translation and the speed with which evidence is effectively applied in health policy.