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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Overcoming Challenges To Medicaid Investments In Social Determinants Of Health

Recent findings from AcademyHealth’s Payment Reform for Population Health Initiative, featured in Health Affairs yesterday, identify several strategies to leverage current Medicaid authorities to promote and provide prevention services.

Posted Jun 14, 2018

Topics Public & Population Health Building Healthy Communities Costs & Payments News

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Who’s using health data from your fitbit and smartphone?

Jessica Skopac and Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outline the importance of ethical standards for consumer-generated data use in healthcare in response to AcademyHealth's recent 2018 Health Datapalooza conference.

Posted Jun 13, 2018 By Susan Mbawuike, Jessica Skopac

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Data Sharing Health Datapalooza

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The Advocacy Portfolio: Building a foundation for physician advocacy in academia

Amidst a myriad of health policy changes, physician advocacy is now more relevant than ever. AcademyHealth member, Dr. Anita Shah and coauthor Dr. Abby Nerlinger highlight a tool for documenting a scholarly approach to advocacy.

Posted Jun 8, 2018 By Anita Shah, DO, MMS, MPH, Abby Nerlinger, MD, MPH

Topics Advocacy Quality Improvement Health Equity Advocacy

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Taking action to put the patient at the center of the healthcare system

Responding to CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s remarks at Datapalooza in April, Kim Warren of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights four areas where CMS action could expand patient access to data.

Posted Jun 6, 2018 By Kimberly Warren

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Data Sharing Health Datapalooza

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Realizing the Full Potential of the Learning Health System

The Health Care Systems Research Network is seeking submissions to include in a forthcoming special issue of eGEMs that will serve as an evidence-informed toolkit to address the complex attributes of health and health care.

Posted Jun 4, 2018 By Sarah Greene, M.P.H.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Delivering Better Care Hospitals & Health Systems Using Health Data eGEMs

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It’s Mental Health Month – Let’s Remember Adolescent Mental Wellbeing!

AcademyHealth Senior Scholar in Residence and Adolescents and Children Together for Health (ACT for Health) Board Member, Denise Dougherty, Ph.D., shares current and ongoing work aimed at enhancing adolescent wellbeing.

Posted May 30, 2018 By Denise Dougherty, Ph.D.

Topics Public & Population Health

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Research Approaches for Real-World Evidence Generation

The second in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post explains how new data sources and research methods are giving us a better and deeper understanding of patients’ behavior and recommendations for how to leverage that.

Posted May 22, 2018 By Bernard Hamelin, MD, MSc, MBA

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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From Randomized Controlled Trials to Real World Evidence: Finding the Balance

The first in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post highlights the opportunities to better understand not just whether an intervention worked or not, but how, for whom and why it did or didn’t.

Posted May 8, 2018 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP, Marya Khan, M.P.H.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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Themes of Health Datapalooza 2018 Point to Opportunities to Blend Research and Innovation

Paul Wallace, veteran Datapalooza attendee and AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence, shares his four impressions from last week’s meeting.

Posted May 4, 2018 By Paul Wallace, M.D.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza

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Data Challenge Will Make Available Data More Actionable for Community Health Improvements

A new data challenge coming this summer will make data from the Healthiest Communities Rankings available to contestants to design and implement community level interventions.

Posted Apr 26, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A., Raj Sabharwal, M.P.H.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care