The Power of Person-Generated Health Data: Five Ways to Improve the Care Experience
AcademyHealth and a group of diverse stakeholders are working to develop a unifying framework for using person-generated health data in shared decision-making.
States Leverage Medicaid Waivers to Combat Health Challenges, Pilot Funding Approaches and Work Requirements
AcademyHealth reviews recent developments in state Medicaid pilots designed to test innovative alterations to existing Medicaid programs through Section 1115 waivers.
Creating an Evidence-Based Cancer Survivorship Care Quality Framework
Larissa Nekhlyudov, AcademyHealth member and inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, highlights her work to develop a cancer survivorship care quality framework.
Addressing Teen Crises: A Challenge for Mental Illness Awareness Week
A new policy playbook identifies the top policy priorities to pave the way to a true safety net for adolescents in mental health crisis situations.
Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech
In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care.
Where Is Public Health in the 2020 Election?
Health care is a leading issue in the 2020 election. But that doesn’t mean the debate addresses the issues public health advocates think are the most important. AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Edward L. Hunter offers his perspective on how the debate should be broadened to achieve fundamental change.
Addressing Low-Value Care: The Promise of Electronic Health Data
The wealth of new, electronic health data sources presents new opportunities for conducting research on and ultimately eliminating low-value care.
Adopting Clinical Analytic Tools in your Institution’s Health Information Management Strategy: Peril or Promise?
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Rebecca Freeman provides first-hand reflections on the complexities of making something useable out of the data quagmire many find themselves standing in.
Reflections on World Patient Safety Day: An Urgent Call for Radical Action
With medical errors causing more than 250,000 deaths annually, Karen Wolk Feinstein of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, issues a call for change in four key areas to save lives and improve care.
Senate’s Labor HHS Funding Bill Includes Unacceptable Cuts to Health Research
AcademyHealth urges the Senate to revisit a devastating cut to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and to act to ensure sufficient and stable funding as it works with the House to finalize spending bills this fall.