Characterizing Cancer Care Delivery Research for Older Adults with Cancer
Virginia Sun, the 2021-2022 NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, discusses the importance of improving healthcare delivery for older adults with cancer.
The present and future of rural America’s hospitals
Rural health care systems have seen dramatic shifts in recent decades. This ‘plain language summary’ reviews recent research published in AcademyHealth’s official journal, HSR, which addresses the current state of rural hospitals and how new investments can prevent ongoing health disparities and reinvigorate the health of rural Americans.
Finally, Progress On Patient Safety—Thanks To Health Services Research. We Need More.
A new study found significant progress across a range of patient safety measures. Leah Binder, President and CEO of the Leapfrog Group, explores what changed, and why much more work needs to be done to improve patient safety.
AHRQ Updates Learning Health System Competencies to Include Health Equity
New competency area will elevate and help to unify equity work in health systems
Caring for Kids the Right Way: Key Components of Children’s Care Coordination
This report focuses on the care coordination functions that support the interventions and services within a whole-child approach to children’s health care.
Efforts to Improve EHR Data for Maternal Health Research Featured in Healthcare IT News
Standardization of maternal health data in electronic health records (EHR) will help researchers examine factors that impact health outcomes from pre-pregnancy to postpartum care and beyond. A new article in Healthcare IT News outlines a collaborative approach that led to the development of an implementation guide to support mapping maternal health data across clinical areas and use cases.
The Public and Population Health Theme at ARM 2022 Offers Insights on Health System Transformation
Public and Population Health theme co-chair, Angela Hagan, offers insights to key topics that will be explored at the meeting on health and well-being, including health equity in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, commercially-insured, and community populations interwoven with COVID-19’s outsize impact on public and population health.
Conference Highlights Opportunities for a More Equitable, Just Health Care System
The 2022 Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference featured issues related to health care organization and delivery and how those aspects affect quality and outcomes, with an emphasis on advancing equity.
Health Policy in 2022: A Preview of State and Federal Policy Priorities
A Virtual Pre-National Health Policy Conference Event
Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field
Lessons learned and promising practices shared by participants fell under four themes: member-centeredness, community-centeredness, structured yet adaptable social determinants of health programming, and realigning systems for whole-person care.