Post-Acute Care and Beyond: A Personal and Professional Introduction
A personal perspective highlights the patient and family experience with post-acute care services and puts current research needs in context.
Carrying the Banner for Health Services Research in the March for Science
AcademyHealth is proud to be an official partner for the March for Science, and we will be marching alongside our colleagues in the broader scientific community on the 22nd in honor of our mission to improve health and the performance of the health system by supporting the production and use of evidence to inform policy and practice.
Explaining the growth in Medicare Advantage
We've entered an era in which predicting Medicare Advantage growth has become difficult and more speculative.
President’s Proposed Budget Cuts Funding to Science and Research Vital to Improving Lives of All Americans
AcademyHealth is deeply troubled by the president’s budget and the signal it sends to the nation’s scientific enterprise.
Pounding the Pavement for Health Services Research!
One of my greatest privileges as president and CEO of AcademyHealth is the opportunity to represent you, our members – who are making strides each day to help us better understand and improve our health care system – in visits with members of Congress and congressional staff. It is an honor to speak about how health services research is revolutionizing the way we see and respond to health care challenges and opportunities, and I am constantly energized by the promise and impact of your work.
In the News: The GOP’s Proposed Health Bill
The release of the Republican’s proposed American Health Care Act has generated several summaries and perspectives in the headlines. This is a sample of what we’ve been reading.
Does Good Health Mean Good Business? New Research Seeks to Find Out
Traditional Medicare is cheaper
OK, you knew that already. But what are the implications for access to care?
Increasing evidence that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work
In Mexico, not only did a sugar-sweetened beverage tax work, it appears to be working more as time goes on.
Insurance Market Stability: The High-Deductible Problem
A number of solutions have been proposed to help lower costs and improve access to care by attracting healthier people to risk pools. Barbara Markham Smith of Health Management Associates, an AcademyHealth Organizational Affiliate, shares her thoughts on the role of high-deductibles in the instability of the Marketplaces.