2020 Health Datapalooza
The gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice.
Challenges in Health Data Do Not Exist in a Vacuum
Co-located Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference co-chair Niall Brennan highlights the importance of diverse perspectives to solve our most pressing health care challenges in the first of a series of blog posts prior to the February meeting.
Why is Cloud Technology the Right Prescription for Health Care?
Marty Puranik, President & CEO of Atlantic.Net, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outlines the benefits of cloud technology including data storage and scalability, collaboration and increased interoperability, use of AI and machine learning, security, and cost reductions.
An Overview of the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network
The Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN) supports evidence-based state health policy and practice with a focus on transforming Medicaid-based health care, including improving the patient experience with care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care.
The Power of Person-Generated Health Data: Five Ways to Improve the Care Experience
AcademyHealth and a group of diverse stakeholders are working to develop a unifying framework for using person-generated health data in shared decision-making.
Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech
In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care.
2019 Health Data Leadership Institute
Leveraging data and navigating federal policy for health system transformation.
Addressing Low-Value Care: The Promise of Electronic Health Data
The wealth of new, electronic health data sources presents new opportunities for conducting research on and ultimately eliminating low-value care.
Adopting Clinical Analytic Tools in your Institution’s Health Information Management Strategy: Peril or Promise?
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Rebecca Freeman provides first-hand reflections on the complexities of making something useable out of the data quagmire many find themselves standing in.
Special Issue Focuses on Data’s Potential to Drive Health System Transformation
Research in a special issue sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlights new data insights and capabilities that respond to rapid change in the way researchers, clinicians, patients, policymakers and others use data to transform health care.