The Power of Person-Generated Health Data: Five Ways to Improve the Care Experience
AcademyHealth and a group of diverse stakeholders are working to develop a unifying framework for using person-generated health data in shared decision-making.
2019 Health Policy Orientation
Behind the scenes of decision-making in Washington.
Addressing Teen Crises: A Challenge for Mental Illness Awareness Week
A new policy playbook identifies the top policy priorities to pave the way to a true safety net for adolescents in mental health crisis situations.
Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech
In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care.
Advocates and Policy Experts Identify Priorities for Addressing Teen Mental Health Crises
This policy playbook outlines policy recommendations and advocacy strategies across seven domains identified by the National Summit for Policy & Action on Teen Mental Health Crises convened by AcademyHealth.
Addressing Low-Value Care: The Promise of Electronic Health Data
The wealth of new, electronic health data sources presents new opportunities for conducting research on and ultimately eliminating low-value care.
Adopting Clinical Analytic Tools in your Institution’s Health Information Management Strategy: Peril or Promise?
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Rebecca Freeman provides first-hand reflections on the complexities of making something useable out of the data quagmire many find themselves standing in.
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.
Review Highlights Need for More Holistic Measures around Low-Value Care
A review commissioned by AcademyHealth finds that most efforts to decrease low-value care focus more on the reduction of certain tests and treatments, rather than on assessing unintended consequences, listening to patients and providers, and measuring outcomes.
Special Issue Focuses on Data’s Potential to Drive Health System Transformation
Research in a special issue sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlights new data insights and capabilities that respond to rapid change in the way researchers, clinicians, patients, policymakers and others use data to transform health care.