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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The 2020 Health Debate Pt. 2: Achieving Public Goals through Financing Reform

Coverage and financing will continue to dominate the 2020 election debate. That makes it all the more important to explore how financing proposals by candidates of both parties can contribute to a broader population and public health agenda.

Posted Nov 7, 2019 By Edward L. Hunter

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

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Expanding the Reach of Dissemination and Implementation Research Training

The National Cancer Institute unveiled an open access training program to help close the gap between research and practice by building researchers’ dissemination & implementation capacity.

Posted Nov 4, 2019 By David Chambers, D.Phil.

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation HSR Workforce Development

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The Power of Person-Generated Health Data: Five Ways to Improve the Care Experience

AcademyHealth and a group of diverse stakeholders are working to develop a unifying framework for using person-generated health data in shared decision-making.

Posted Oct 31, 2019 By Margo Edmunds, Ph.D., FAMIA

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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States Leverage Medicaid Waivers to Combat Health Challenges, Pilot Funding Approaches and Work Requirements

AcademyHealth reviews recent developments in state Medicaid pilots designed to test innovative alterations to existing Medicaid programs through Section 1115 waivers.

Posted Oct 30, 2019

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care

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Creating an Evidence-Based Cancer Survivorship Care Quality Framework

Larissa Nekhlyudov, AcademyHealth member and inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, highlights her work to develop a cancer survivorship care quality framework.

Posted Oct 17, 2019 By Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H.

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health

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Addressing Teen Crises: A Challenge for Mental Illness Awareness Week

A new policy playbook identifies the top policy priorities to pave the way to a true safety net for adolescents in mental health crisis situations.

Posted Oct 10, 2019 By Denise Dougherty, Ph.D., Elizabeth Cope, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Topics Advocacy Delivering Better Care

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Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech

In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care.

Posted Oct 9, 2019 By Aneesh Chopra, M.P.P., Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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Where Is Public Health in the 2020 Election?

Health care is a leading issue in the 2020 election. But that doesn’t mean the debate addresses the issues public health advocates think are the most important. AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Edward L. Hunter offers his perspective on how the debate should be broadened to achieve fundamental change.

Posted Oct 1, 2019 By Edward L. Hunter

Topics Public & Population Health Building Healthy Communities

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Addressing Low-Value Care: The Promise of Electronic Health Data

The wealth of new, electronic health data sources presents new opportunities for conducting research on and ultimately eliminating low-value care.

Posted Sep 23, 2019 By Marya Khan, M.P.H.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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Adopting Clinical Analytic Tools in your Institution’s Health Information Management Strategy: Peril or Promise?

Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Rebecca Freeman provides first-hand reflections on the complexities of making something useable out of the data quagmire many find themselves standing in.

Posted Sep 20, 2019 By Rebecca Freeman, Ph.D., R.N., P.M.P.

Topics Using Health Data Hospitals & Health Systems Delivering Better Care