Themes of Health Datapalooza 2018 Point to Opportunities to Blend Research and Innovation
Paul Wallace, veteran Datapalooza attendee and AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence, shares his four impressions from last week’s meeting.
Data Challenge Will Make Available Data More Actionable for Community Health Improvements
A new data challenge coming this summer will make data from the Healthiest Communities Rankings available to contestants to design and implement community level interventions.
Sixth Annual Health Data Liberator Award Honors Work to Increase Use and Impact of Humanitarian Data
Winners of the award were recognized at Health Datapalooza for their work on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, an open platform for sharing humanitarian data.
New Area of Research Leverages Clinical Decision Support to Improve Evidence-Based, Patient-Centered Care
A learning network aims to address barriers to implementing research findings in clinical care through patient-centered clinical decision support. Research in this emerging area will be featured in Better Decisions Together, a new special section in AcademyHealth’s journal eGEMs.
States Turn to Medicaid Managed Care to Coordinate Long-Term Services and Supports
Trends in state programs provide an opportunity to examine how long-term services and supports (LTSS) are being financed and implemented. This post previews a forthcoming webinar from AcademyHealth’s LTSS interest group that will provide an overview of Medicaid financed Managed LTSS.
Blockchain: Now that you have some understanding about what blockchain is and how it works, what does it mean for health care?
Blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change the way we transact, automating agreements while reducing the need for trust and intermediaries in multi-party transactions- How can you take advantage of blockchain for health-related applications today and in the future?
State and Local Innovations in Data Use to be Recognized at Health Datapalooza
Finalist projects for the inaugural Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Award leverage data to improve health and outcomes in their communities.
A New Window on the Evolving Health Care System and Medical Pricing
Robin Gelburd of FAIR Health, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights findings from a recent white paper around the growth of alternative places of health care service and medical pricing.
Blockchain: You’ve heard of it, your colleagues keep talking about it, but what is it?
Blockchain is an emerging technology that has the potential to significantly disrupt many industries from finance and banking, to health care and energy. But what is blockchain, how does it work, and when should you consider it?
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.