eGEMs Special Issue Highlights EHD Research from Concordium
This special issue includes papers on telehealth, machine learning, and incorporating social determinants into traditional health data.
Connect, Collaborate, Communicate: The Story of the EDM Forum
This is the story of how AcademyHealth supported a community that helped shape the next generation of learning health systems.
Post-Acute Care and Beyond: Responding to the Growing Need for Chronic Care
Reflecting a discussion with federal policymakers and researchers, this report highlights strategies to improve care and lower costs for post-acute and chronic care.
Pounding the Pavement for Health Services Research!
One of my greatest privileges as president and CEO of AcademyHealth is the opportunity to represent you, our members – who are making strides each day to help us better understand and improve our health care system – in visits with members of Congress and congressional staff. It is an honor to speak about how health services research is revolutionizing the way we see and respond to health care challenges and opportunities, and I am constantly energized by the promise and impact of your work.
Milbank Quarterly: Hot Topic Op-Eds and New Evidence
The March 2017 issue of Milbank Quarterly features papers on the latest evidence on issues from health disparities to low-value care.
Paul Wallace Named Executive Editor of AcademyHealth’s Open Access Journal eGEMs
A national leader in population health research and the use of evidence to improve health care, Dr. Wallace was also an early advocate for the use of electronic health data for delivery system transformation and brings decades of experience to his new role.
Working Together to Modernize Health Care
AcademyHealth joins an alliance aimed at achieving large-scale connected integration, and transforming the health sector into a health system.
The Critical Role of Evidence in a Robust and Just Policy Process
Lisa Simpson, AcademyHealth President and CEO, opened the 2017 AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference with the following remarks, focused on how the health care and health policy community can positively contribute to the development of sound policy in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment.
The Invisible Wounds of War Study Stimulates Far Reaching Policy Changes
In 2007, researchers undertook a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive study of the mental health and cognitive needs of returning service members and veterans, focusing on post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression, and traumatic brain injury. The work was chosen as the 2011 AcademyHealth HSR Impact Award winner.
In Uncertain Times, Health Research Community Convenes Around Anchor of Evidence
A new year, a new administration, and a new congress has presented several questions around the future of health care in the United States. As one of the year’s first conferences focused solely on health care and policy, the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) welcomed three members of the United States Congress and over 700 attendees. Below are summaries of some of the most popular sessions.