Building Healthy Communities

The need for alignment across sectors, cultures and goals is crucial to support a collaborative partnership’s community-wide population health improvement efforts.

The education sector, the health sector, and many others have long realized that they need to work together for better outcomes. Sharing data between sectors can help, but it’s not easy.

Health System Integration Leader for Honor Health and Health Datapalooza co-chair Kelsey Mellard highlights six ways health systems can move toward value-based practices.

AcademyHealth and the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition announce a partnership to improve vaccination rates of low-income children and pregnant women.

In concert with National Cybersecurity Month, Christine Sublett of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Task Force describes how our nation’s information infrastructure is evolving.

Building on the last two years as part of AcademyHealth’s Community Health Peer Learning Program, communities in New Orleans and rural California are tackling new challenges with new funding.

This report explores challenges and successes related to how health care purchasers, plans, and providers could support strategies for sustainable investment in non-clinical community-wide population health activities.

This learning guide and supporting materials are intended for established collaborative bodies made up of numerous organizations that are embarking on a joint population health initiative.