Making Health Datapalooza YOUR show
Journalist, author, patient advocate and storyteller extraordinaire, Casey Quinlan provides tips for getting the most out of attending Health Datapalooza.
Ladies, Let’s Meet, Lead and Succeed at Health Datapalooza
The Global Digital Health Partnership comes to the US: What can we learn from leading digital health thought leaders?
The Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP), initially a concept, is now a new global network for sharing ideas and challenges in digital health amongst participating governments, government agencies and the WHO. The next Global Digital Health Partnership meeting will take place in Washington DC on 24 and 25 April, preceding the 2018 Health Datapalooza, 26 and 27 April.
Omnibus Legislation for FY2018 Improves Funding for Health Research, Including the First Increase for AHRQ in Nine Years
The FY2018 omnibus spending package helps ensure that health care delivery organizations, policymakers, and the people they serve have the information and evidence they need to make informed decisions.
New Documentary Looks at Patient Safety, with an Eye on AHRQ
Creating Space for Increased Collaboration and Conversation on Interoperability
Read the latest from the National Interoperability Collaborative and its work to increase collaboration among the sectors that impact health and well-being by improving information-sharing, interoperability, and use of technology.
Capturing the Impact of Research on Policy: Lessons from an AcademyHealth Pilot Project
Establishing whether, how, and why a particular study has directly impacted health policy or health care practice is a persistent and well-documented challenge. A recent article in The Foundation Review chronicles AcademyHealth’s experience with this issue, including lessons learned that may be useful to other organizations that support research and policy analysis.
Breaking through the hype in health care: What can machine learning really do for your patients?
The holy grail in health care is not fancier technology and tools, it is physician and patient behavior change. Machine learning will truly come of age when it can improve the decision-making of clinicians and patients or improve their efficiency in carrying out the actions that follow from those decisions.
AcademyHealth Statement on President’s FY19 Budget Request
President’s request proposes significant and concerning changes to the nation’s scientific enterprise.
Health Policy in 2018: Experts Tout State Innovation, Progress on Social Determinants, and Highlight Importance of Evidence in Policymaking
As the country and its leaders consider the future shape and scope of health care coverage, hundreds from across the health policy community converged at the National Health Policy Conference.