Webinar: Navigating Low-Value Care: A Roadmap for Stakeholders
This webinar sought to define and deepen the understanding of low-value care and its importance to various stakeholders.
Focus on Patients is a Key to Reducing Low-Value Care
AcademyHealth staff reflect on the continuing need to advance research on low value care, following a Health Affairs blog post urging a focus on vulnerable populations in broader efforts to reduce low-value care.
The Power of Person-Generated Health Data: Five Ways to Improve the Care Experience
AcademyHealth and a group of diverse stakeholders are working to develop a unifying framework for using person-generated health data in shared decision-making.
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.
Patient Centered Care Must Be Dynamic and Responsive
A physician, patient, caregiver and advocate offers her viewpoint on the barriers to patient centered care, including lack of understanding of the care giver role, insurance status, as well as bias, racism and social determinants of health.
Patient Involvement Improves Research
A patient offers his viewpoint on what’s standing in the way of patient centered care in the U.S., emphasizing the need for patients and researchers to work together.
Literature Review Reveals Four Key Barriers to Patient Centered Care
Produced under the Optimizing Value in Health Care program, administered by AcademyHealth, this paper outlines the following barriers to patient centered care: missing information, inadequate trust, organizational culture, and alignment of incentives.
Supporting Patient-Centered Research
AcademyHealth recently submitted comments supporting PCORI reauthorization, in this post, guest author, Dr. Terri Finkel highlights the value of PCORI-supported network PEDSnet.
The Role of Medicaid Engagement and Education Efforts in Improving Delivery of PrEP Intervention Services
This issue brief, commissioned by AcademyHealth, identifies ways the Medicaid program can educate patients and providers to improve the use of PrEP medication and clinical services.
Culture of Health Innovator’s Work on Black Mothers’ Health Featured in Health Affairs
Joia Crear-Perry’s work on improving black mothers’ health was voted best Snapshot of Innovation at the March 2019 Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conference held by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with AcademyHealth.