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Using Health Data

The explosion of health-related data has created new opportunities to understand how health care is delivered, paid for and preserved. Health services evidence helps us understand how to identify, validate, share and analyze data to improve health.

Blog Post       Health Affairs Blog Post Highlights Diverse Perspectives as Key for Sustained Innovation

Health Affairs Blog Post Highlights Diverse Perspectives as Key for Sustained Innovation

Ahead of Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference, AcademyHealth CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson and meeting co-chair Karen DeSalvo consider three dimensions for sustainable innovation for the health sector as we learn from and enter a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted Mar 31, 2022 By Christina Tudor
Blog Post       Exploring Ways to Use Data to Improve Health and Well-Being

Exploring Ways to Use Data to Improve Health and Well-Being

Health Datapalooza theme lead Kistein Monkhouse explores key topics that will be explored at next week’s meeting on health and well-being, including health data gaps exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and approaches by experts in the field to overcome and assess challenges faced by underserved communities, and vaccine hesitancy.
Posted Mar 30, 2022 By Kistein Monkhouse, M.P.A.
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Improving Health Equity in Medicaid: Data Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities

At the December meeting Harnessing Medicaid to Improve Health Equity: A Research and Policy Agenda, researchers, policy administrators, and other key stakeholders discussed the various data challenges that hamper progress toward health equity, and shared resources and approaches to improve data definitions, collection, and utilization.
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Advancing Health Equity through Medicaid: Opportunities for States’ Managed Care Plans

Our third post in the Health Equity Blog series summarizes a discussion by researchers and policy administrators outlining opportunities for states to further health equity through managed care organizations. Representatives from Michigan also shared their efforts to embed health equity throughout their state’s Medicaid program.
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Opportunities and Challenges for Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, Community Health Centers and Their Partners in Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Five States

Despite a need for financing reforms that better incentivize addressing patient whole health and wellness, the lack of clear standardization of social determinants of health screening tools, interoperable data collection systems, lack of robust health-related social services expenditure data, and financing uncertainties and insecurities present significant challenges for value-based payment arrangements, according to this analysis.
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Review of Social Determinants of Health Terms in 2019-2020 State Medicaid Managed Care Contracts

At this early stage of social determinant of health incorporation, many states are targeting their programming, particularly screening and care management/coordination, towards high-risk populations, such as beneficiaries in substance use disorder treatment or those with significant behavioral health needs, children with complex care needs, beneficiaries living with HIV, and individuals with multiple comorbidities.
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