House Spending Bills Are Good News for HSR
Labor-HHS offers good news for HSR and AHRQ with a proposed increase of $20.2 million, the single largest increase in more than decade.
Building a Safety Net for Teen Mental Health: Youth Advocate Perspectives
In the first of a two-part blog series marking National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, a group of youth advocates share their thoughts on the mental health needs of adolescents and how researchers can support them.
Strengthening the Pipeline for Clinician Health Service Researchers
AcademyHealth Education Council member Charlene Wong and colleagues outline three recommendations for expanding the workforce of clinicians who are also health services researchers.
Engaging Consumers and Patients to Accelerate Alternative Payment Models and Benefit Designs
Anne Gauthier and Karen Adams of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlight opportunities to improve care quality and reduce cost by involving consumers in designing alternative payment models.
Community of Practice Tackles Barriers to Increase Immunization Rates
Despite varied immunization policy landscapes across states, AcademyHealth identified three areas of opportunity including leveraging data, ensuring access & coverage, and enhancing provider/patient education and engagement.
Moving Health "Upstream": Getting More from Return-on-Investment Evidence
AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Ed Hunter describes who is using return-on-investment evidence for public health spending, what’s keeping others from using it more, and four next steps to advance its use going forward.
AcademyHealth Member Research Included in JAMA Network Articles of the Year
The Journal of the American Medical Association recently shared their most-read studies of 2018, featuring research from two AcademyHealth members.
Five Recommendations for How Implementation Science Can Better Advance Equity
Implementation researchers, practitioners, and funders considered how to better support equitable implementation and outcomes. They make five recommendations from changing how we talk about implementation science to how we execute it and who we engage along the way.
AcademyHealth Members Publish Relevant Research in February's Health Affairs Issue
The February Health Affairs issue featured 18 member studies on hospital trends, insurance and Medicare, telemedicine, and more.
Healthiest Communities’ Data Challenge Finalists Recognized at 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza
Finalists created tools for comparative insights across counties, combined data for fuller pictures of community health and used data visualization to reveal disparate health outcomes.