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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It’s Mental Health Month – Let’s Remember Adolescent Mental Wellbeing!

AcademyHealth Senior Scholar in Residence and Adolescents and Children Together for Health (ACT for Health) Board Member, Denise Dougherty, Ph.D., shares current and ongoing work aimed at enhancing adolescent wellbeing.

Posted May 30, 2018 By Denise Dougherty, Ph.D.

Topics Public & Population Health

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Research Approaches for Real-World Evidence Generation

The second in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post explains how new data sources and research methods are giving us a better and deeper understanding of patients’ behavior and recommendations for how to leverage that.

Posted May 22, 2018 By Bernard Hamelin, MD, MSc, MBA

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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From Randomized Controlled Trials to Real World Evidence: Finding the Balance

The first in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post highlights the opportunities to better understand not just whether an intervention worked or not, but how, for whom and why it did or didn’t.

Posted May 8, 2018 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP, Marya Khan, M.P.H.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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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.

Posted May 4, 2018 By Paul Wallace, M.D.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza

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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.

Posted Apr 26, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A., Raj Sabharwal, M.P.H.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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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.

Posted Apr 26, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza News

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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.

Posted Apr 24, 2018 By Barry Blumenfeld, M.D. M.S.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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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.

Posted Apr 23, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Membership

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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?

Posted Apr 20, 2018 By Abdul Shaikh, Ph.D., M.H.Sc., Andrew Bradley, CISA, CEH

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data Sharing Health Datapalooza

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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.

Posted Apr 19, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health Health Datapalooza News