2020 Learning Health System Summit
Accelerating Transformation that Lasts
Bridging Clinical and Research to Action and Impact
In this fourth post in a series leading up to Health Datapalooza and the National Health Policy Conference, Rasu Shrestha highlights ways clinicians and researchers can move their findings faster into policy, health systems and tech development.
Pre-Pregnancy Care for Women with Diabetes is Critical, but Inadequately Delivered
AcademyHealth members Cassondra Marshall and Laura Britton highlight their recently published commentary in Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation about how health systems can better support diabetes-specific preconception care.
Issue Brief Highlights Importance of Implementation Science to Address Opioid Epidemic
AcademyHealth member Sarah Shoemaker-Hunt outlines the growing body of research on opioid interventions and points to an opportunity for more work describing the strategies used and what makes them successful.
Why is Cloud Technology the Right Prescription for Health Care?
Marty Puranik, President & CEO of Atlantic.Net, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outlines the benefits of cloud technology including data storage and scalability, collaboration and increased interoperability, use of AI and machine learning, security, and cost reductions.
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.
Patient Centered Care Must Be Dynamic and Responsive
A physician, patient, caregiver and advocate offers her viewpoint on the barriers to patient centered care, including lack of understanding of the care giver role, insurance status, as well as bias, racism and social determinants of health.
Patient Involvement Improves Research
A patient offers his viewpoint on what’s standing in the way of patient centered care in the U.S., emphasizing the need for patients and researchers to work together.
Literature Review Reveals Four Key Barriers to Patient Centered Care
Produced under the Optimizing Value in Health Care program, administered by AcademyHealth, this paper outlines the following barriers to patient centered care: missing information, inadequate trust, organizational culture, and alignment of incentives.
Achieving the Promise of Community Health Needs Assessments
AcademyHealth member Michael Stoto and Mary Davis highlight how strengthening CHNA regulations could have widespread benefits and improve outcomes.