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New Funding Awards Signal Promise for Future of Data-Driven, Multisector Efforts to Improve Community Health

Building on the last two years as part of AcademyHealth’s Community Health Peer Learning Program, communities in New Orleans and rural California are tackling new challenges with new funding.

Posted Sep 27, 2017

Topics Data Sharing Building Healthy Communities

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Is Twitter the Key to Translating Health Services Research?

Does Twitter help create more evidence-informed health policy? AcademyHealth members Sarah Gollust, Zachary Meisel, and David Grande share their efforts to answer this complicated question.

Posted Sep 21, 2017 By Sarah Gollust, Ph.D., Zachary F. Meisel, MD MPH MSHP, David Grande, MD, MPA

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Data Sharing

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So What? Helping Stakeholders See the Value in Research Results

Keeping stakeholders engaged throughout the research process is essential to ensuring research makes a difference in policy and practice. Laura Lagendyk of NVivo, an AcademyHealth Organizational Affiliate, shares a practical example of one way to help stakeholders make the link between data and the relevance to the research.

Posted Sep 19, 2017 By Laura Lagendyk

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Membership

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Read on Washington: September 15 Advocacy Update from Lisa Simpson

The latest developments in Washington, including notes on appropriations, movement on CHIP reauthorization, and some reflections on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Posted Sep 15, 2017 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Advocacy Advocacy

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Research Gaps in Health Care Delivery: Retail Clinics’ Expansion into Chronic Condition Care

Retail health clinics are a growing care source now capable of treating the approximately 100 million Americans with diabetes, asthma, or hypertension. AcademyHealth student member Elizabeth Danielson highlights the need for research into cost and quality of this care.

Posted Sep 13, 2017 By Elizabeth Danielson, M.A.

Topics Quality Improvement Costs & Payments ARM

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Read on Washington: September 8 Advocacy Update from Lisa Simpson

Congress did not waste any time upon members' return from summer recess before diving into their incredibly busy fall agenda.

Posted Sep 8, 2017 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Advocacy Advocacy

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Senate Labor-HHS Appropriation Maintains Support for HSR

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded at $324 million in Senate Committee's FY2018 spending bill.

Posted Sep 7, 2017

Topics Advocacy

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Child Flourishing: Our Greatest Public Health Opportunity Needs a Policy Response

Posted Sep 5, 2017 By Christina D. Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH

Topics Building Healthy Communities

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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Health Care Quants

Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC and 2018 Health Datapalooza Steering Committee member Greg Downing explores the nature of data science and the trends around methods that are rendering actionable insights from data across all aspects of health care.

Posted Aug 17, 2017 By Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza

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Research Translation at the 2017 Annual Research Meeting – Rising to the Occasion

Getting evidence to decision makers at the right time, in the right format, and on relevant topics has never been easy. This year’s meeting reminded us why it’s important to do it anyway.

Posted Aug 2, 2017

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation ARM