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.
Webinar: Stabilizing Individual Health Insurance Markets
As part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded project Research Insights, managed by AcademyHealth, this webinar identified the effects of a range of federal and state levers intended to strengthen the individual health insurance market’s infrastructure.
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.
An Opportunity to Reduce Costs, Deliver Better Outcomes in Oral Health
AcademyHealth member Naiya Patel highlights how formative training around alternative tobacco products could help dental health professionals deliver better care.
Reflections on World Patient Safety Day: An Urgent Call for Radical Action
With medical errors causing more than 250,000 deaths annually, Karen Wolk Feinstein of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, issues a call for change in four key areas to save lives and improve care.
Evaluating Health Care Innovation in Five Easy Steps
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker and AcademyHealth member Lisa Green encourages consumers and researchers to consider the strengths and shortcomings of data used to measure the effectiveness of health care interventions, models, and policies.
Webinar: What’s in a Number? It Matters in Health Policy Conversations
This webinar discussed the health care spending debate in the United States.
Webinar: Data Linkages and Applications for Low-Value Care
This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Low-Value Care, focused on linking diverse data sets and the potential for using data linkages in studying and addressing low-value care.
New Research Evaluates Efforts to Reduce Cost, Deliver Better Care in Health Systems
From hospital readmissions to repeat visits to the emergency department, studies presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting highlight important implications for health system decision makers.
Webinar: Reducing Low-Value Care: A Focus on De-implementation
This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Low-Value Care, focused on the process of removing care that has been identified as low-value from practice.