Stakeholder Viewpoints on the Status of Health Data
Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, highlights survey results from attendees at the 10th Annual Health Datapalooza.
Healthiest Communities’ Data Challenge Finalists Recognized at 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza
Finalists created tools for comparative insights across counties, combined data for fuller pictures of community health and used data visualization to reveal disparate health outcomes.
Health Data Liberator Award Honors Work to Help Consumers Make Smarter Choices
Award winner Robert Krughoff is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Services /Consumers’ Checkbook, an independent non-profit organization that improves transparency in health care and promotes greater consumer understanding of health care information.
Medical Experts—Let’s Stop Criticizing Digital Health Records and Start Building Something Better
In this blog post, Health Datapalooza speaker Edward S. Kim, MD, FACP, emphasizes the need for digital health records to reflect the on-the-ground realities of medicine.
Survey Seeks Health Data Community’s Thoughts on the Future of Innovation in Health Care
As part of the 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza, AcademyHealth is fielding a survey on hot topics in health data. The survey will remain open until 3 pm ET on Wednesday, March 27.
Health Datapalooza 2019 Features High Profile Global Technology Policy Discussions
Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, highlights several international sessions at this year’s Health Datapalooza.
Insights into Health Care’s Future from an Entrepreneur Turned Inside Digital Transformation Leader
In a recent article, Gregory Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar, talks with Medstar’s chief futurist and entrepreneur-in-residence John Lock about the future of data, technology, and innovation in health care.
AcademyHealth and HIMSS Join Forces to Leverage Health and Health Care Data to Support Changes in Policy and Practice
New collaboration will power a year-round suite of activities and outreach focused on advances in digital health applications, data resources, and evidence to improve health and health care
Who’s using health data from your fitbit and smartphone?
Jessica Skopac and Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outline the importance of ethical standards for consumer-generated data use in healthcare in response to AcademyHealth's recent 2018 Health Datapalooza conference.
Taking action to put the patient at the center of the healthcare system
Responding to CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s remarks at Datapalooza in April, Kim Warren of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights four areas where CMS action could expand patient access to data.