Creating an Evidence-Based Cancer Survivorship Care Quality Framework
Larissa Nekhlyudov, AcademyHealth member and inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, highlights her work to develop a cancer survivorship care quality framework.
Reflections on World Patient Safety Day: An Urgent Call for Radical Action
With medical errors causing more than 250,000 deaths annually, Karen Wolk Feinstein of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, issues a call for change in four key areas to save lives and improve care.
The First World Patient Safety Day: Time for a Moonshot for Health Services Research?
AcademyHealth member and Professor Hardeep Singh and Tejal Gandhi, chief clinical and safety officer at IHI, highlight three considerations for the field of health services research to advance patient safety.
Review Highlights Need for More Holistic Measures around Low-Value Care
A review commissioned by AcademyHealth finds that most efforts to decrease low-value care focus more on the reduction of certain tests and treatments, rather than on assessing unintended consequences, listening to patients and providers, and measuring outcomes.
Evaluating Health Care Innovation in Five Easy Steps
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker and AcademyHealth member Lisa Green encourages consumers and researchers to consider the strengths and shortcomings of data used to measure the effectiveness of health care interventions, models, and policies.
How Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Can Help Address Complex Delivery Challenges
AcademyHealth recently convened a group of eight state Medicaid programs and public health stakeholders to examine why an effective HIV prevention treatment is underused, why clinical care guidelines are underutilized, and how intra-agency collaborations could improve its delivery and use.
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Webinar: 10 years of Advancing Pediatric Quality of Care: Celebrating and Reflecting on a Decade of the Pediatric Quality Measures Program and Looking Toward the Future
This webinar provided a brief history of 10 years of the Pediatric Quality Measurement Program (PQMP) and its advances into quality improvement.
An Overview of the Medicaid Medical Directors Network
The (Medicaid Medical Directors Network) MMDN focuses on the development and use of evidence-based medicine, measurement and improvement of health care quality, and the redesign of health care delivery systems.
New Playbook Focuses on 11 Strategies to Add Prevention to the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic
The National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC), an initiative led by AcademyHealth and Stewards of Change Institute, has recently published, “The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook”.