Kaiser Family Foundation creates new online tool that provides latest health policy facts and data

The Kaiser Family Foundation today launched Kaiser Fast Facts, a new component of its kff.org Web site, featuring QuickTakes and Kaiser Slides – two new tools providing direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format.

QuickTakes presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance providing a concise overview of the health care system, as well as key facts about a wide variety of health policy topics, including: Medicaid, the uninsured, health care costs and insurance, Medicare, public opinion, HIV/AIDS, minority health, women's health policy and the entertainment media and health. These data are compiled from the Foundation's own studies and analyses as well as those from other organizations. Using QuickTakes, Web visitors will find up-to-date health policy statistics that provide an overview of key aspects of the health care system without having to search through various publications. Links to related materials and sources are also provided.

Kaiser Slides allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print hundreds of graphics and tables presenting health policy statistics and trends from studies by Kaiser and others. The slides, which cover a broad range of topics, explain key aspects of health policy issues and can be used by anyone in presentations or as handouts at meetings and events.

This new Kaiser Slides feature includes:

• a compendium of slides searchable by topic or keywords;
• the ability to view, download, save or print individual slides or to create your own slideshows (slides and tables will be available for download in their native PowerPoint or Excel format or as printer-friendly PDFs);
• prepared slideshows on such topics as health care affordability and the uninsured; and
• access to detailed online chartbooks, such as the newly updated "Health Coverage in America."

Slides will be updated as new data become available.

Kaiser Fast Facts also provides direct access to Kaiser’s comprehensive collection of fact sheets -- two-page overviews of complex health policy issues -- and other online data and analysis tools that the Foundation has created, such as the interactive Medicare Health Plan Tracker, State Medicaid Fact Sheets and the Medicaid Benefits Database, as well as the statehealthfacts.org and globalhealthfacts.org Web sites.