New National Initiative Seeks to Increase Impact of Data Sharing in Health and Human Services
Kresge Foundation Grant Aims to Create National Interoperability Collaborative
President's Budget Deals Devastating Blow to Science...But Only If We Let It
The president's budget request is typically described by journalists and political pundits as "dead on arrival" regardless of who is in charge of what branch of government. Congress takes their constitutional "power of the purse" very seriously, and while lawmakers do take the president's request into consideration, they take pride in making their own funding decisions...
Read on Washington: June 2 Advocacy Update from Lisa Simpson
This advocacy update will center on federally funded research at the forces at play.
Journal Digs into Real World Health Data Lessons
eGEMs, AcademyHealth’s open access peer-reviewed journal, released a new call for papers, open through July 1, that seeks to address some of the fundamental health data issues revealed at the recent Health Datapalooza.
Read on Washington: May 26 Advocacy Update from Lisa Simpson
As can be expected, this week all eyes – ours included – have been on the president's proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2018, so today I'll provide a recap with all we know so far.
Health Services Research Continues to Take Hits in President's Budget
Today the president's budget was released, providing some much-needed detail to the "skinny budget" that was released in March. Today's release confirms the Administration's earlier proposal to move the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality under the National Institutes of Health umbrella.
Read on Washington: May 19 Advocacy Update from Lisa Simpson
This week’s advocacy update will be shorter than last week’s, but there have been a few developments I wanted to be sure were on your radars.
Moving Health Care Data Collection into the Electronic Realm
For more than 30 years, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has collected, analyzed and disseminated data on health care utilization in the United States, including the National Health Care Surveys, a family of surveys of health care providers in inpatient, ambulatory, and long-term care settings. NCHS is now bringing this family of surveys into the electronic realm.
Electronic Health Data and Methods Journal Relaunches on New Platform
AcademyHealth's open access journal, eGEMs, publishes research on the use of health data to improve health and health care
AcademyHealth Welcomes New AHRQ Director Khanna
This morning in an email to staff, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Acting Director Dr. Sharon Arnold announced that Mr. Gopal Khanna is joining the agency today as its new director.