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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Insights into Health Care’s Future from an Entrepreneur Turned Inside Digital Transformation Leader

In a recent article, Gregory Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar, talks with Medstar’s chief futurist and entrepreneur-in-residence John Lock about the future of data, technology, and innovation in health care.

Posted Feb 19, 2019 By Zenneia McLendon

Topics Data Sharing Data Sources Health Datapalooza

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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.

Posted Feb 15, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A., Brian Cardillo, M.A.

Topics Access to Care Public & Population Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid National Health Policy Conference

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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.

Posted Feb 13, 2019 By Erin Williams, J.D.

Topics Using Health Data National Health Policy Conference

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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.

Posted Feb 12, 2019 By Elizabeth Cope, Ph.D., M.P.H., Rebekah Angove, Ph.D., Rachel Dungan, M.S.S.P., Holly Peay, PhD

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Patient & Consumer Engagement Research Ethics & Governance

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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.

Posted Feb 7, 2019 By Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H.

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health Membership

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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.

Posted Feb 6, 2019 By Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D., Subha Madhavan, Ph.D., Nicholas Soulakis

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data

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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.

Posted Feb 5, 2019 By Rachel Dungan, M.S.S.P., Rebekah Angove, Ph.D., Elizabeth Cope, Ph.D., M.P.H., Holly Peay, PhD

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Patient & Consumer Engagement Research Ethics & Governance

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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.

Posted Jan 31, 2019 By Sherry Glied, Ph.D.

Topics Research Ethics & Governance Using Health Data

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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.

Posted Jan 30, 2019 By Emily Chun

Topics Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities Access to Care

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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.

Posted Jan 29, 2019 By Rachel Dungan, M.S.S.P., Rebekah Angove, Ph.D., Elizabeth Cope, Ph.D., M.P.H., Holly Peay, PhD

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Patient & Consumer Engagement Research Ethics & Governance