Collecting Quality Data for Performance Management: A Learning Guide
This learning guide and supporting materials are intended to support population health performance management for those using electronic data.
Connect, Collaborate, Communicate: The Story of the EDM Forum
This is the story of how AcademyHealth supported a community that helped shape the next generation of learning health systems.
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.
Active Use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Personal Health Records (PHRs) for Epidemiologic Research: Sample Representativeness and Nonresponse Bias in a Study of Women During Pregnancy
Calculating Power by Bootstrap, with an Application to Cluster-randomized Trials
Seeing Last Year’s Comments in Action in 2017
Last year – as part of our ongoing charge to ensure health services research is accounted for in federal policy – AcademyHealth submitted several comments to federal policymakers -- among them were responses to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects and the NPRM on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This year we’ve seen final rules on both these subjects released.
HSR Journal’s December Issue Features Best of AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
A selection of last year’s ARM research is featured in the current issue of Health Services Research (HSR). The articles reflect the range of cutting edge research included at the ARM covering topics from EHR adoption to quality measures to patient safety – all with findings pointing to ways to improve health and the health care system.
Reflecting the Health Services Research Landscape – On a Global Scale
With 32,000 records, HSRProj is the most comprehensive repository of information on health services research in the United States. To increase its ability to address global health challenges, the database’s staff is working to include more records on projects taking place in and funded by countries other than the United States.