President’s Proposed Budget Cuts Funding to Science and Research Vital to Improving Lives of All Americans
AcademyHealth is deeply troubled by the president’s budget and the signal it sends to the nation’s scientific enterprise.
Pounding the Pavement for Health Services Research!
One of my greatest privileges as president and CEO of AcademyHealth is the opportunity to represent you, our members – who are making strides each day to help us better understand and improve our health care system – in visits with members of Congress and congressional staff. It is an honor to speak about how health services research is revolutionizing the way we see and respond to health care challenges and opportunities, and I am constantly energized by the promise and impact of your work.
Measuring Quality Of Care: The Authors Reply [Letters]
Clinical Pathways, Claims Data, And Measuring Quality [Letters]
Seeing Last Year’s Comments in Action in 2017
Last year – as part of our ongoing charge to ensure health services research is accounted for in federal policy – AcademyHealth submitted several comments to federal policymakers -- among them were responses to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects and the NPRM on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This year we’ve seen final rules on both these subjects released.
AcademyHealth CEO Poses Key Question for 2017 in Health Affairs
Will evidence matter in 2017? If we want to truly transform health and health care in this country, it must. AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson writes about the key areas in health policy where evidence should matter most.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Patient Centered Educational Mailer Designed to Improve Statin Adherence: A Pragmatic Trial
Physician Service Attribution Methods for Examining Provision of Low-Value Care
Lower- Versus Higher-Income Populations In The Alternative Quality Contract: Improved Quality And Similar Spending [Accountable Care]
Mapping the Complexity and Dynamism of the Field at the 9th Annual D&I Conference
The 9th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health wrapped up yesterday after two full days of discussion around adaptation, innovation, and translation.