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What role does community health play in employee performance at American manufacturing companies?

Recent study findings, highlighted this week on the Health Affairs blog, suggest that poor community health negatively affects workers’ performance.

Posted Oct 12, 2018 By Megan Collado, M.P.H.

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

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AcademyHealth and HIMSS Join Forces to Leverage Health and Health Care Data to Support Changes in Policy and Practice

New collaboration will power a year-round suite of activities and outreach focused on advances in digital health applications, data resources, and evidence to improve health and health care

Posted Oct 11, 2018 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care Health Datapalooza

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Think You’re Saving Money by Cutting Corners on HIPAA? You’re Wrong

Marty Puranik, CEO of Atlantic.Net, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, assesses compliance with data privacy and security regulations and outlines methods to cut costs associated with compliance.

Posted Oct 10, 2018 By Marty Puranik

Topics Using Health Data

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Leveraging Patient Insights to Improve Genetic Test Reports

Interview with eGEMs author Jessica Goehringer about her new paper.

Posted Oct 4, 2018 By Jessica Goehringer

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Using Health Data eGEMs

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Enhancing Online Portals Using Patient-Centered Interface Design

Interview with eGEMs author Traber Giardina about her new paper.

Posted Sep 27, 2018 By Dr. Traber Giardina

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Using Health Data eGEMs

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Accelerating Knowledge and Competencies to Harness Data to Drive Health Care Transformation

Turning data into knowledge and action requires more than artificial intelligence and massive processing capacity. AcademyHealth President and CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson highlights some of the other keys to harnessing data for health care transformation, many of which will be discussed at this week's Health Data Policy and Strategy Orientation.

Posted Sep 25, 2018 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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The Year of Data Quality

Rebecca Bruno of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to enhance Medicaid data quality, improve its oversight functions, and provide data that can be used effectively by researchers and stakeholders.

Posted Sep 21, 2018 By Rebecca Bruno

Topics Using Health Data

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Experts Examine the Evidence on Medicaid and Personal Responsibility Requirements

Attendees at a recent AcademyHealth meeting discussed research on work incentives, cost sharing, healthy behaviors, and Medicaid waiver implementation challenges in several states.

Posted Sep 20, 2018 By David Lebhar

Topics Access to Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

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High Drug Prices and Promising Policy Proposals: What the Evidence Says

While prescription drug costs are a complex issue with multiple reasons for high prices, several states are exploring policies to address the problem.

Posted Sep 17, 2018 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H.

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments

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AcademyHealth Blog Listed as a Top 30 "Must-Read" for IT professionals

HealthTech Magazine has searched high and low to find the most useful blogs for IT professionals and executives in today's healthcare IT landscape.

Posted Sep 13, 2018 By Zenneia McLendon

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data Sharing Analytic Tools