How Do We Close the Gap Between Evidence Production and Use?
A new article suggests two specific strategies aimed at realizing the promise of a learning health system.
Three Key Considerations for Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Patient Engagement
Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, shares perspectives on applying digital health tools to help patients engage in their health, expanding on discussions at the 2018 Health Datapalooza and Annual Research Meeting.
When It Comes to Collaboration, Sectors Emphasize Technical Aspects Over Cultural Ones
In a review of technical documents and toolkits on interoperability, what we found was almost as interesting as what we didn’t.
Data as a Strategic Institutional Asset to Catalyze Healthcare Delivery Innovation
With a massive growth in data and information, there is a bounty of opportunity for value creation at hand. But delivery systems will have to be strategic about the use of data in order to be truly innovative.
An Investment in Supportive Housing is an Investment in Health
A recent study published in the Health Services Research Journal by Sungwoo Lim and colleagues found that a supportive housing program positively affected both housing stability and preventable health care visits among homeless families.
Researchers with Experience in Real World Evidence Have Potential to Transform Care
Building on efforts to tailor health care decisions to the needs of individual patients, Sanofi is partnering with AcademyHealth to offer a fellowship supporting skills in the management and analysis of real world data.
Patient-centered Approaches: Accepted & Increasingly Expected
Several particularly notable moments at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting suggested that patient-centered approaches will continue to feature, significantly and sustainably, as the field of health services research (HSR) advances.
Harmonizing Data & Facilitating Its Use Across Entities to Advance the Learning Health Care System
Kim Warren, Carlos Ramos Gomez-Rejón, and Anne Gauthier of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, reflect on the 2018 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) sharing three critical factors at play in the ability to leverage data to advance learning health systems.
Voices from the Field: Community Actions that Helped Build Urban Health Equity
In the second of a two-part series, this post highlights work in Richmond, California to transform the city into a place where everyone has the opportunity to live a healthy life.
Voices from the Field: Culturally Appropriate Services to Support Healthy Mind, Body, Spirit
In the first of a two-part series, this post highlights the work of Native American Connections to provide culturally appropriate behavioral health, affordable housing, and community development services.