2019 Health Datapalooza
A decade of turning information into innovation.
Step by Step toward Medical and Addiction Care Integration
In a recent review of care integration models, AcademyHealth member John O’Brien and colleagues found similarities on issues related to culture change, data sharing, and payment models.
AcademyHealth Blog Listed as a Top 30 "Must-Read" for IT professionals
HealthTech Magazine has searched high and low to find the most useful blogs for IT professionals and executives in today's healthcare IT landscape.
When It Comes to Collaboration, Sectors Emphasize Technical Aspects Over Cultural Ones
In a review of technical documents and toolkits on interoperability, what we found was almost as interesting as what we didn’t.
Harmonizing Data & Facilitating Its Use Across Entities to Advance the Learning Health Care System
Kim Warren, Carlos Ramos Gomez-Rejón, and Anne Gauthier of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, reflect on the 2018 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) sharing three critical factors at play in the ability to leverage data to advance learning health systems.
Life Isn’t Lived in Siloes and Our Data Shouldn’t Either
This environmental scan, conducted by AcademyHealth, assesses existing guidance about sharing critical information within and across organizations and sectors in order to better serve populations.
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.
Blockchain: Now that you have some understanding about what blockchain is and how it works, what does it mean for health care?
Blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change the way we transact, automating agreements while reducing the need for trust and intermediaries in multi-party transactions- How can you take advantage of blockchain for health-related applications today and in the future?
Blockchain: You’ve heard of it, your colleagues keep talking about it, but what is it?
Blockchain is an emerging technology that has the potential to significantly disrupt many industries from finance and banking, to health care and energy. But what is blockchain, how does it work, and when should you consider it?