Health care data are generated and stored in a wide variety of formats. How can data users access and share data in order to learn from it? Health services researchers and data users are looking at data sharing to improve health and health care.
In a recent article, Gregory Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar, talks with Medstar’s chief futurist and entrepreneur-in-residence John Lock about the future of data, technology, and innovation in health care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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?
