Delivering Better Care

Delivering better care is a broad domain of research that includes assessing and improving the quality of care itself, expanding access to care, and understanding the many ways to organize and improve care in hospitals, health systems and other care settings.

Publication

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.

Posted Oct 08, 2019

Topics Advocacy Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

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.

Posted Sep 23, 2019 By Marya Khan, M.P.H.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

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.

Posted Sep 20, 2019 By Rebecca Freeman, Ph.D., R.N., P.M.P.

Topics Using Health Data Hospitals & Health Systems Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

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.

Posted Sep 19, 2019 By Karen Wolk Feinstein, Ph.D.

Topics Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement Costs & Payments

Blog Post

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.

Posted Sep 13, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement

Publication

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.

Posted Sep 12, 2019

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Data Sources Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

Health Care’s Failure to Share Data: An Issue of Culture or a Crisis of Integrity?

Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Laura L. Adams reflects on the barriers to better health data sharing, calling for stakeholders to find the will and the way to advance data sharing.

Posted Sep 12, 2019 By Laura L. Adams

Topics Data Sharing Delivering Better Care

Publication

Employees from Less-Healthy Communities Use Emergency Department Services More

Research finds that community health affects employees’ use of emergency departments, which suggests a need for greater education about and access to primary care.

Posted Sep 05, 2019

Topics Building Healthy Communities Delivering Better Care

Past Event

Webinar: Data Linkages and Applications for Low-Value Care

This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Low-Value Care, focused on linking diverse data sets and the potential for using data linkages in studying and addressing low-value care.

Date & Time June 13, 2019, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Delivering Better Care Using Health Data Costs & Payments

Publication

The Role of Medicaid Engagement and Education Efforts in Improving Delivery of PrEP Intervention Services

This issue brief, commissioned by AcademyHealth, identifies ways the Medicaid program can educate patients and providers to improve the use of PrEP medication and clinical services.

Posted Jun 07, 2019

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health