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.
Evaluation of Iowa’s 1115 Waiver Highlights Importance of Communication, Instrument Testing
Recent AcademyHealth webinar presenter and behavioral scientist Natoshia Askelson reflects on the evaluation of Iowa’s Healthy Behavior Program 1115 Waiver.
The First World Patient Safety Day: Time for a Moonshot for Health Services Research?
AcademyHealth member and Professor Hardeep Singh and Tejal Gandhi, chief clinical and safety officer at IHI, highlight three considerations for the field of health services research to advance patient safety.
Review Highlights Need for More Holistic Measures around Low-Value Care
A review commissioned by AcademyHealth finds that most efforts to decrease low-value care focus more on the reduction of certain tests and treatments, rather than on assessing unintended consequences, listening to patients and providers, and measuring outcomes.
Health Care’s Failure to Share Data: An Issue of Culture or a Crisis of Integrity?
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Laura L. Adams reflects on the barriers to better health data sharing, calling for stakeholders to find the will and the way to advance data sharing.
Eleven States Partner to Examine Medicaid Strategies to Combat Opioid Use Disorder
Cross-state analysis is often hindered by data sharing challenges. A new Medicaid Distributed Research Network seeks to advance knowledge through the use of a Common Data Model.
Recent Governmental Actions on Medicaid Waivers Present a Diverse Implementation Landscape
As states continue to propose, implement, and evaluate new Medicaid demonstrations, AcademyHealth reviews recent developments related to Medicaid expansion funding, work requirements, and hospital reimbursement.