AcademyHealth Blog

A selection of last year’s ARM research is featured in the current issue of Health Services Research (HSR). The articles reflect the range of cutting edge research included at the ARM covering topics from EHR adoption to quality measures to patient safety – all with findings pointing to ways to improve health and the health care system.

With 32,000 records, HSRProj is the most comprehensive repository of information on health services research in the United States. To increase its ability to address global health challenges, the database’s staff is working to include more records on projects taking place in and funded by countries other than the United States.

In working to prevent infectious disease, two familiar lessons rise to the surface: the importance of strengthening health systems, and the importance of empowering local leaders and communities. Both are key aspects of AcademyHealth’s mission to make health care and research better.

Despite an overall shift toward value-based care, payment and financing models in the United States remain largely tied to clinical services and have not incorporated services linked to the social determinants of health. AcademyHealth is working to identify why this is and how progress can be made.

Even when looking at those who first benefitted from Medicaid as children, the long-term benefits are impressive

With a new administration comes uncertainty for the future of state health policy and Medicaid. Now more than ever, state-university partnerships are critical for advancing AcademyHealth’s mission to support the use of evidence to inform policy and practice.

After nearly 30 years, the final grants funded under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative are coming to a close at the end of December. This work has built on AcademyHealth’s broader efforts to get actionable evidence that can improve health and health care into the hands of decision makers when they need it and in a format they can use.