Quality Improvement

AcademyHealth's Scaling Cancer Biomarker Testing Coalition aims to transform cancer care in the US by bringing together stakeholders across the cancer care ecosystem to make personalized cancer biomarker testing a standard, covered part of care for all patients. The roadmap outlines how the coalition will address systems-level challenges to achieve this goal through collective action.

AcademyHealth highlights four new projects at the UNC Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center that will generate timely evidence on key behavioral health workforce challenges. AcademyHealth will support dissemination of findings to the health services research community.

2025 ARM Theme Leader Dolapo Fakeye previews sessions focused on Measuring Safety, Quality, and Value at the upcoming conference this June in Minneapolis.

The EvidenceNOW initiative serves as a key example for how AHRQ has effectively supported healthcare systems and improved preventive services. The continuation of this initiative is critical to reduce the chronic disease burden and improve health overall in the U.S.

The Older Americans Act is having a profound effect on agencies that serve older adults.

Community mental health agencies consistently lag in the implementation of health information technology (IT) resulting in fewer opportunities for care coordination and data sharing. Federal and state policy approaches can improve the expansion of electronic health records and health IT connecting community mental health care to the rest of the health system.

Congress is racing to build on the pandemic era expansion of telehealth access for mental health care, but while some legislation tries to solve known disparities in access, support for mental health service research generally is still lacking.