Advocacy

This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, Medicare prescription drug negotiations, HRSA funding opportunities, and more.

President and CEO Aaron Carroll discussed his vision for health services research at the June 2024 National Advisory Council Meeting (NAC) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This second post in the series focuses on his priorities in creating more flexible funding mechanisms, artificial intelligence, and advanced data computing in digital health care research.

President and CEO Aaron Carroll discussed his vision for health services research at the June 2024 National Advisory Council Meeting for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This first post in a two-part series focused on his priorities in innovations in HSR methodology, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, and incentivizing community and patient partnerships.

This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, AcademyHealth's response to OSTP on disability data needs, bipartisan health cybersecurity legislation, and more.

This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, advocacy at ARM, AHRQ’s Advisory Council meeting, new comments from MACPAC, and more.

In an exclusive briefing hosted by AcademyHealth and the Friends of AHRQ, AHRQ Director Robert Valdez discussed the Agency’s priorities on health services research, patient safety, and technological integration in health care.

Following CMS announcement of data access restrictions in February, AcademyHealth launched an aggressive, and successful, advocacy effort to support the needs of researchers and patients.

This month’s “Read on Washington,” available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, congressional pressure on VA’s electronic health record (EHR), new federal funding opportunities, and more.

This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, CMS announcement on data policy reform, new nursing home staffing rules, and more.