Health Data, Policy and the Pursuit of Health Equity
Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference co-chair Shannon Sartin highlights the benefits of bringing data geeks and policy wonks together at next month’s virtual meeting.
JAMA Viewpoint Highlights Strategies to Address Misinformation in the Patient-Clinician Relationship
The spread of health misinformation, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, undermines trust in the patient-clinician relationship. JAMA Viewpoint authors, including AcademyHealth CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson, consider why misinformation spreads and strategies to address it.
13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Bridging the gap between research, practice, and policy.
Promoting Men’s Health Equity
This editorial argues that more qualitative research is needed to evaluate the intended and unintended findings from interventions and highlights the benefits that men’s health equity can gain from embracing dissemination and implementation science as a tool to systematically design, implement, refine, and sustain interventions.
The Provider Perspective: Can Cost-of-Care Screening Work in Clinical Settings?
Medical care providers recognize the importance of discussing cost of care issues with their patients but have struggled to incorporate these conversations into clinical practice. This second of two posts focuses on integrating cost of care discussions into the clinical flow.
Trust Should be a Two-Way Street
Public Agenda’s survey findings show that most people with Medicaid and most primary care physicians who treat them believe that it is important both for doctors to trust their patients and for patients to trust their doctors.
The Patient Perspective: Can Screening for Cost of Care Issues be Normalized?
This is the first of a two-part series focused on the importance of screening for and addressing cost of care issues for patients and caregivers. It addresses both the obstacles and opportunities for incorporating cost of care discussions into clinical practice.
How Cancer Changes You – and Doesn’t
AcademyHealth President and CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson reflects on the 20-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis.
Three Key Equity Considerations for Advancing High-Value Care
In a webinar for the Research Community on Low-Value-Care, experts shared three key considerations for designing an equitable, high-value health care system. They emphasized the need to ensure equitable care is being delivered by a diverse workforce with an understanding of how to use data to improve interventions to advance equity.
Using Mistrust, Distrust, and Low Trust Precisely in Medical Care and Medical Research Advances
This paper refines the way that patient's trust, mistrust, and distrust are conceptualized.