Report Identifies Health Systems’ Priority Research Questions on COVID-19
Topics of interest from health system experts compiled by AcademyHealth include the impact on health system policies, processes, providers, and patient care.
Report Details Price Variation Across and Within Minnesota Hospitals
Findings from AcademyHealth members' work reveal that a substantial amount of the variation was related to differences within individual hospitals and not explained by factors such as severity of illness, length of stay, or patients’ age.
Research Points to Impact of Global Budget Model on Hospital Spending
Findings from AcademyHealth members’ work suggest that hospital global budgets can reduce hospital expenditures and unnecessary utilization without adverse effects.
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.