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Access to health care data has increased markedly, driven by federal requirements for hospital price transparency and publicly reported quality metrics. However, transparency by itself, while essential, is insufficient to empower patients.
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The quality of scientific evidence is closely tied to the quality of our connections. AcademyHealth President and CEO Aaron Carroll highlights the importance of strengthening data partnerships, especially as health care and health policy challenges become more urgent.
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Representative, accessible, and transparent data is key to improving health outcomes. As our Health Data for Action program enters its concluding year, we are exploring lessons learned and highlight some of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in a three-part blog series.
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Kat McDavitt and Andrew Ibrahim reflect the core of Health Datapalooza’s mission: advancing innovation that is grounded in rigorous evidence, aligned with patient needs, and responsive to policy realities. AcademyHealth's 2026 Health Datapalooza will be held on September 24-26 in Washington, D.C.
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A recent study by housing policy expert Emmy Tiderington and colleagues found that many people can and do successfully exit permanent supportive housing programs without adverse housing or health care outcomes.
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This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on leadership shakeups at HHS, court action on the PHIG, upcoming nomination hearing for the Surgeon General, and more.
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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we highlight an advocacy opportunity to support AHRQ’s FY27 funding, leadership changes across the CDC and NIH, and explore new pressures on drug pricing following a major Supreme Court ruling. We also look at how states are beginning to develop alternative research‑funding strategies amid ongoing federal instability.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we highlight an opportunity to share how federal data cuts are affecting your work, examine payer alignment with CMMI’s ACCESS model, and explore concerns about FDA reforms, and AI-driven insurance decisions.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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Every health care system will face a crisis it didn’t see coming. The question is whether leaders will have built the infrastructure, trust, and capacity to respond before the moment arrives. On March 12, 2020, as Norway entered lockdown and international supply chains collapsed, officials faced that test in real time.
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With the ACA premium tax credits expiring, some policymakers are proposing broadening access to health savings accounts (HSAs) as a fix-all to consumers’ health care affordability concerns, despite evidence to the contrary.