AcademyHealth Members Publish Relevant Research in February's Health Affairs Issue
The February Health Affairs issue featured 18 member studies on hospital trends, insurance and Medicare, telemedicine, and more.
Healthiest Communities’ Data Challenge Finalists Recognized at 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza
Finalists created tools for comparative insights across counties, combined data for fuller pictures of community health and used data visualization to reveal disparate health outcomes.
Health Data Liberator Award Honors Work to Help Consumers Make Smarter Choices
Award winner Robert Krughoff is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Services /Consumers’ Checkbook, an independent non-profit organization that improves transparency in health care and promotes greater consumer understanding of health care information.
Medical Experts—Let’s Stop Criticizing Digital Health Records and Start Building Something Better
In this blog post, Health Datapalooza speaker Edward S. Kim, MD, FACP, emphasizes the need for digital health records to reflect the on-the-ground realities of medicine.
Survey Seeks Health Data Community’s Thoughts on the Future of Innovation in Health Care
As part of the 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza, AcademyHealth is fielding a survey on hot topics in health data. The survey will remain open until 3 pm ET on Wednesday, March 27.
Health Datapalooza 2019 Features High Profile Global Technology Policy Discussions
Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, highlights several international sessions at this year’s Health Datapalooza.
New Study Finds Lower Cost Respiratory Care Options Outside of Intensive Care
AcademyHealth member Laura C. Myers discusses the implications of findings from a recent study pointing to complex issues around standardization of hospital policies.
New Playbook Focuses on 11 Strategies to Add Prevention to the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic
The National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC), an initiative led by AcademyHealth and Stewards of Change Institute, has recently published, “The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook”.
AcademyHealth Members Publish Research on Substance Use Treatment, Health Policy Recommendations, and More
The January issue of Health Affairs features member research on topics such as substance use treatment, payment methods, medicare, medicaid, and health policy.
Unpacking the New CMS and ONC Interoperability Proposed Rules
Rob McCready, Kathy Mikk, and Pace Ricciardelli of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, analyze the key points of new proposed rules on interoperability recently issued by CMS and ONC.