Patients Value Provider Performance Track Records
Research shows mental health care consumers value provider performance data, among other factors, when making treatment decisions.
Spurring Innovation: The Role of Child Health Policy
Value-Based Purchasing: Experiences of a Service Provider
Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this brief outlines the lessons learned by one social service provider in exploring a value-based contract with a managed care insurance plan.
Value-Based Purchasing: Making Good Health Good Business
Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this report explains how changing the we pay for health and health care, can incentivize the health improvements and health care cost outcomes we want.
New Research Emphasizes Patients’ Role in Designing & Testing New Information Tools
The first papers published in the ongoing section, Better Decisions Together, in AcademyHealth’s open access, peer-reviewed journal eGEMs highlight work to advance patient-centered clinical decision support.
Studies Point to Effective Policies in Fight Against Opioid Overdoses
New research presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting also reveal significant gender and racial disparities in patterns of opioid prescriptions for dental conditions.
2018 Annual Research Meeting
A record-breaking year at the Annual Research Meeting.
Realizing the Full Potential of the Learning Health System
The Health Care Systems Research Network is seeking submissions to include in a forthcoming special issue of eGEMs that will serve as an evidence-informed toolkit to address the complex attributes of health and health care.
Research Approaches for Real-World Evidence Generation
The second in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post explains how new data sources and research methods are giving us a better and deeper understanding of patients’ behavior and recommendations for how to leverage that.
From Randomized Controlled Trials to Real World Evidence: Finding the Balance
The first in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post highlights the opportunities to better understand not just whether an intervention worked or not, but how, for whom and why it did or didn’t.