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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.

Posted Sep 13, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement

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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.

Posted Sep 3, 2019 By Lisa Green, Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Costs & Payments Quality Improvement

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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.

Posted Jul 17, 2019

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care Quality Improvement Public & Population Health

Blog Post

5 Trends to Watch this #NationalHospitalWeek

Posted May 14, 2019 By Emily Chun

Topics Health Equity Using Health Data Quality Improvement

Past Event

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.

Date & Time April 9, 2019, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Quality Improvement

Publication

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.

Posted Mar 12, 2019

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Quality Improvement

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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”.

Posted Mar 5, 2019 By Zenneia McLendon

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health Using Health Data

Blog Post

Taking a Closer Look at Quality Measurement in Cancer Survivorship: One Scholar’s Story

Larissa Nekhlyudov, inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, discusses the importance of quality measurement in cancer survivorship care.

Posted Feb 7, 2019 By Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H.

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health Membership

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Data as a Strategic Institutional Asset to Catalyze Healthcare Delivery Innovation

With a massive growth in data and information, there is a bounty of opportunity for value creation at hand. But delivery systems will have to be strategic about the use of data in order to be truly innovative.

Posted Aug 23, 2018 By Aparna Higgins, M.A., Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Quality Improvement Delivering Better Care

Publication

Patients Value Provider Performance Track Records

Research shows mental health care consumers value provider performance data, among other factors, when making treatment decisions.

Posted Aug 01, 2018

Topics Health Equity Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement