VA FORUM Spring 2017: Implementation Science
This issue of FORUM showcases cutting-edge implementation science from quality improvement initiatives in VA.
High-Price And Low-Price Physician Practices Do Not Differ Significantly On Care Quality Or Efficiency [Physician Practice & Payment]
Concordium 2016: Data and Knowledge Transforming Health
Time to Push: Use of Gestational Age in the Electronic Health Record to Support Delivery of Relevant Prenatal Education Content
An Emergent Research and Policy Framework for Telehealth
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.
Clinical Pathways, Claims Data, And Measuring Quality [Letters]
Measuring Quality Of Care: The Authors Reply [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.