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Longtime Health Datapalooza champion Lucas Tramontozzi reflects on what brings him back to the conference each year. One of his biggest takeaways is that Health Datapalooza isn’t just a mirror of where the field stands today-it’s a compass pointing to where it needs to go next.
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At the recent AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, a diverse panel representing researchers, industry leaders, state representatives, and federal policy experts discussed the challenges and opportunities in unlocking the full potential of price transparency. The blog highlights some promising paths forward.
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we cover the newly passed rescission package and looming cuts, rising ACA premiums in 2026, and critical opportunities to share your experience with lost public health data.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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Navigating the unprecedented change and uncertainty in today’s health care landscape requires us to carefully design the best next steps for a path forward. At UPMC, we believe that a learning community approach will not only help health care stakeholders weather current challenges but also build a stronger and more sustainable stakeholder-driven research infrastructure.
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we highlight further federal staffing shakeups at HHS and NIH advisory committee appointments while additional reports reveal 100 government health datasets were substantially altered.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, HHS finalizes layoffs after a key Supreme Court ruling, new Medicaid work requirements threaten coverage for millions and strain state budgets, and a controversial funding cap could shrink the future medical workforce and deepen health care access gaps.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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In an era where real-world data platforms hold the transformative potential to illuminate the complexities of autism, the imperative of building trust and ethical integrity in research has never been more critical.
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The research consensus shows that rural health systems and patients are going to be severely harmed by the policies enacted by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Supporting AHRQ can give Congress an evidence-based pathway to mitigate harm.
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This edition of AcademyHealth's Situation Report details Academy Health efforts, including a letter Congress, to protect the integrity of the USPSTF and additional Trump Administration actions pose further threats to the federal workforce and health systems.
Posted Jul 10, 2025
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In Health Affairs Forefront, AcademyHealth CEO Aaron Carroll highlights the real-world impact of the Administration’s removal of critical datasets, AcademyHealth's federal lawsuit to get the datasets restored, and ways you can get involved and support our work.