Health Policy Experts Urge Focus on Spending, Delivery System & Public Health Issues
Last week, hundreds of experts from across the health policy community converged in Washington D.C. for AcademyHealth’s National Health Policy Conference.
Implications, Questions and Actions for Patient-Centric Digital Health
Responding to remarks by HHS Secretary Alex Azar and other speakers at NHPC in February, Erin Williams of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights areas where new proposed CMS and ONC interoperability rules and other federal action could promote patient-centric digital health.
Engagement Science: Where Do We Go from Here?
In the last post of a six-part series on engagement science, authors provide four recommendations for the future of the field.
Taking a Closer Look at Quality Measurement in Cancer Survivorship: One Scholar’s Story
Larissa Nekhlyudov, inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, discusses the importance of quality measurement in cancer survivorship care.
Academic Medical Center Chief Data Scientists: Pathways of the Pioneers
Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, sits down with two pioneers in data management to discuss their experiences.
Engagement Science: Where to Focus & the Future of the Field
The fifth of a six-part series on engagement science, this post describes three areas of continued work and study that can help to ensure the successful and sustainable maturation of engagement practice.
New Law Enacts Recommendations of Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
AcademyHealth member and health economist Sherry Glied provides an overview of a new law that will both facilitate health services research and offer new opportunities for this research to influence policy.
AcademyHealth Members Examine Barriers to Telehealth and Opportunities to Expand Its Use
December’s issue of Health Affairs features 11 articles by AcademyHealth members on the theme of telehealth.
Engagement Science: A Look at Existing Evidence
In the fourth of a six-part series on engagement science, authors highlight how this growing field has already supported considerable scholarship with implications for formalizing engagement activities.
AcademyHealth CEO Shares Three Hot Topics for the Health Policy Research Community in 2019
In 2019, three hot topics will continue to demand action and timely evidence will be needed, AcademyHealth President and CEO, Lisa Simpson discusses these hot topics and more.