Delivering Better Care

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.

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.

Comprehensive systems that connect patients with both the health and social service sectors are an essential element to to addressing the social determinants of health. Based on work in Oregon, AcademyHealth and Nemours developed a checklist of the functions and features of a successful comprehensive system.

A new data challenge coming this summer will make data from the Healthiest Communities Rankings available to contestants to design and implement community level interventions.

A learning network aims to address barriers to implementing research findings in clinical care through patient-centered clinical decision support. Research in this emerging area will be featured in Better Decisions Together, a new special section in AcademyHealth’s journal eGEMs.

This 2015-2017 Progress Report details how AcademyHealth worked with our members, partners, and funders to make both health care and research better all with the aim of making health and health care better for everybody.

As we bear witness to all the change afoot, our challenge is to identify when – and for whom – a change is an improvement. For those of us who produce the evidence that help us determine this, there is no time to rest.

New eGEMs section seeks to realize the dream of genuine patient-centered clinical decision support.