AcademyHealth Blog

Welcome to the AcademyHealth blog, together with our members, we promote interaction across the health research and policy arenas by bringing together a broad spectrum of players to share their perspectives. Here we offer important perspectives from people passionate about expanding access to care, reducing costs and improving quality, as well as updates on AcademyHealth activities relevant to the community.

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A Little Known Channel for Getting Evidence to Policymakers

In the first of a two-part series, AcademyHealth member Beth Prusaczyk describes the Congressional Research Service and how policymakers rely on it for evidence relevant to policymaking.

Posted May 15, 2019 By Beth Prusaczyk, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation HSR Resources & Methods

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5 Trends to Watch this #NationalHospitalWeek

Posted May 14, 2019 By Emily Chun

Topics Health Equity Using Health Data Quality Improvement

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Nothing About Us Without Us: How Can Researchers Respond to Teens’ Concerns about Mental Health?

In the second of a two-part blog series marking National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, a group of researchers respond to youth advocates’ thoughts on the mental health needs of adolescents.

Posted May 9, 2019 By Denise Dougherty, Ph.D., Elizabeth Cope, Ph.D., M.P.H., Richard L. Wittenberg, Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Delivering Better Care Access to Care

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House Spending Bills Are Good News for HSR

Labor-HHS offers good news for HSR and AHRQ with a proposed increase of $20.2 million, the single largest increase in more than decade.

Posted May 8, 2019 By Kristin Rosengren

Topics Advocacy Advocacy

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Building a Safety Net for Teen Mental Health: Youth Advocate Perspectives

In the first of a two-part blog series marking National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, a group of youth advocates share their thoughts on the mental health needs of adolescents and how researchers can support them.

Posted May 6, 2019 By Karen Wolk Feinstein, Ph.D., Liam Boyd, Abby Dischner, Emma Dischner, Ayala Rosenthal

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Delivering Better Care Access to Care

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Strengthening the Pipeline for Clinician Health Service Researchers

AcademyHealth Education Council member Charlene Wong and colleagues outline three recommendations for expanding the workforce of clinicians who are also health services researchers.

Posted May 3, 2019 By Ashley Z. Ritter, PhD, CRNP, Austin Kilaru, MD, Charlene Wong, M.D., M.S.H.P.

Topics HSR Workforce Development

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Engaging Consumers and Patients to Accelerate Alternative Payment Models and Benefit Designs

Anne Gauthier and Karen Adams of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlight opportunities to improve care quality and reduce cost by involving consumers in designing alternative payment models.

Posted Apr 30, 2019 By Anne K. Gauthier, M.S. , Karen Adams

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Paying for Care Costs & Payments Membership National Health Policy Conference

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Community of Practice Tackles Barriers to Increase Immunization Rates

Despite varied immunization policy landscapes across states, AcademyHealth identified three areas of opportunity including leveraging data, ensuring access & coverage, and enhancing provider/patient education and engagement.

Posted Apr 24, 2019 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H.

Topics Public & Population Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Data Sharing

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Moving Health "Upstream": Getting More from Return-on-Investment Evidence

AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Ed Hunter describes who is using return-on-investment evidence for public health spending, what’s keeping others from using it more, and four next steps to advance its use going forward.

Posted Apr 11, 2019 By Edward L. Hunter

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Paying for Care Building Healthy Communities

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AcademyHealth Member Research Included in JAMA Network Articles of the Year

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently shared their most-read studies of 2018, featuring research from two AcademyHealth members.

Posted Apr 9, 2019 By Emily Chun

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments Public & Population Health Membership