Leveraging Patient Insights to Improve Genetic Test Reports
Interview with eGEMs author Jessica Goehringer about her new paper.
Enhancing Online Portals Using Patient-Centered Interface Design
Interview with eGEMs author Traber Giardina about her new paper.
Three Key Considerations for Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Patient Engagement
Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, shares perspectives on applying digital health tools to help patients engage in their health, expanding on discussions at the 2018 Health Datapalooza and Annual Research Meeting.
Patient-centered Approaches: Accepted & Increasingly Expected
Several particularly notable moments at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting suggested that patient-centered approaches will continue to feature, significantly and sustainably, as the field of health services research (HSR) advances.
Is Trust the Missing Piece from the Health Care Cost Puzzle?
New research from Ishani Ganguli of Harvard Medical School examines the factors that can influence health care costs for high-cost patients and reveals a complex relationship between trust, patient activation and cost.
Who’s using health data from your fitbit and smartphone?
Jessica Skopac and Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outline the importance of ethical standards for consumer-generated data use in healthcare in response to AcademyHealth's recent 2018 Health Datapalooza conference.
Taking action to put the patient at the center of the healthcare system
Responding to CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s remarks at Datapalooza in April, Kim Warren of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights four areas where CMS action could expand patient access to data.
How AcademyHealth Worked to Make Health and Health Care Better for Everybody from 2015-2017
This 2015-2017 Progress Report details how AcademyHealth worked with our members, partners, and funders to make both health care and research better all with the aim of making health and health care better for everybody.
Improving Health Care by Building Trust and Respect for Patients
Recent study findings, highlighted this week in Health Affairs, find that consumers rely on sources outside the traditional health care system when making decisions about their health. A new call for proposals seeks to build the evidence base on building trust within the health care system.