State of the States Takes In-Depth Look at State Health Reform
Exploring Consumer & Patient Internet Search Data to Improve Diagnosis
With funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, AcademyHealth, in collaboration with Innovations Horizons, is supporting pilot projects and work groups to help understand the potential of and challenges to using internet data to facilitate timely, accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Building Trust and Mutual Respect to Improve Health Care
AcademyHealth manages the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Building Trust and Mutual Respect to Improve Health Care program, which awarded eight research studies in 2018 to examine how to build trust and mutual respect to meet vulnerable patients’ health care needs.
Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network: Equity and Quality Improvement for Medicaid Programs (MODRN EQUIP)
AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute, as the Administrative Coordinating Center for the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network, supports the University of Pittsburgh and 11 additional state-university research teams to develop opioid use disorder (OUD) quality measures that can be constructed at the provider level, incorporate patient experience, and center health equity.
Medicaid and CHIP Quality eXchange (MAC QX)
In collaboration with Mathematica, AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute convenes the Medicaid Medical Director Network and the Medicaid and CHIP Quality eXchange to promote quality measurement and improvement in Medicaid and CHIP.
Advancing Trust: A Focus on Medical Debt
This collaboration between AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation aims to improve trust in our health care system with a focus on addressing medical debt.
Research Insights
The aim of public and private funders of health services research is not only to support studies on the health care system and health care services, but also to disseminate results to policymakers.
Medicaid Strategies to Implement Comprehensive Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Clinical Care Services
With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute and ChangeLab Solutions explored approaches to improving care and delivery of PrEP medication and clinical care services to the Medicaid population.
Moving Policy Upstream to Advance Adolescent Flourishing
In partnership with Adolescents and Children Together for Health, AcademyHealth leads this project on policy priorities to enhance adolescent health and wellbeing as part of a larger initiative at Well Being Trust to advance the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation.