Delivering Better Care

This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Low-Value Care, focuses on the potential for using data from electronic health records (EHRs) for low-value care research.

A new article suggests two specific strategies aimed at realizing the promise of a learning health system.

This webinar features the work of 2017-2018 NCI/AcademyHealth Healthcare Delivery Research Visiting Scholar, Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H., who will present on her project on developing a framework for quality measurement in cancer survivorship care that may be used to drive research, policy, and clinical care in diverse settings.

With a massive growth in data and information, there is a bounty of opportunity for value creation at hand. But delivery systems will have to be strategic about the use of data in order to be truly innovative.

Research shows mental health care consumers value provider performance data, among other factors, when making treatment decisions.

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.

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. 

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.

New research presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting also reveal significant gender and racial disparities in patterns of opioid prescriptions for dental conditions.