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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Experts Examine the Evidence on Medicaid and Personal Responsibility Requirements

Attendees at a recent AcademyHealth meeting discussed research on work incentives, cost sharing, healthy behaviors, and Medicaid waiver implementation challenges in several states.

Posted Sep 20, 2018 By David Lebhar

Topics Access to Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

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High Drug Prices and Promising Policy Proposals: What the Evidence Says

While prescription drug costs are a complex issue with multiple reasons for high prices, several states are exploring policies to address the problem.

Posted Sep 17, 2018 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H.

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments

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AcademyHealth Blog Listed as a Top 30 "Must-Read" for IT professionals

HealthTech Magazine has searched high and low to find the most useful blogs for IT professionals and executives in today's healthcare IT landscape.

Posted Sep 13, 2018 By Zenneia McLendon

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data Sharing Analytic Tools

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How Do We Close the Gap Between Evidence Production and Use?

A new article suggests two specific strategies aimed at realizing the promise of a learning health system.

Posted Sep 7, 2018 By Kristin Rosengren

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care Hospitals & Health Systems

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Three Key Considerations for Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Patient Engagement

Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, shares perspectives on applying digital health tools to help patients engage in their health, expanding on discussions at the 2018 Health Datapalooza and Annual Research Meeting.

Posted Aug 30, 2018 By Susan Mbawuike

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Data Sources Analytic Tools

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When It Comes to Collaboration, Sectors Emphasize Technical Aspects Over Cultural Ones

In a review of technical documents and toolkits on interoperability, what we found was almost as interesting as what we didn’t.

Posted Aug 24, 2018 By Margo Edmunds, Ph.D.

Topics Data Sharing Data Sources Building Healthy Communities

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Data as a Strategic Institutional Asset to Catalyze Healthcare Delivery Innovation

With a massive growth in data and information, there is a bounty of opportunity for value creation at hand. But delivery systems will have to be strategic about the use of data in order to be truly innovative.

Posted Aug 23, 2018 By Aparna Higgins, Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Quality Improvement Delivering Better Care

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An Investment in Supportive Housing is an Investment in Health

A recent study published in the Health Services Research Journal by Sungwoo Lim and colleagues found that a supportive housing program positively affected both housing stability and preventable health care visits among homeless families.

Posted Aug 20, 2018

Topics Public & Population Health Building Healthy Communities

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Researchers with Experience in Real World Evidence Have Potential to Transform Care

Building on efforts to tailor health care decisions to the needs of individual patients, Sanofi is partnering with AcademyHealth to offer a fellowship supporting skills in the management and analysis of real world data.

Posted Aug 16, 2018 By Juhaeri Juhaeri

Topics HSR Workforce Development Using Health Data

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Patient-centered Approaches: Accepted & Increasingly Expected

Several particularly notable moments at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting suggested that patient-centered approaches will continue to feature, significantly and sustainably, as the field of health services research (HSR) advances.

Posted Aug 14, 2018 By Rachel Dungan, M.S.S.P.

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement ARM