Healthiest Communities’ Data Challenge Finalists Recognized at 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza
Finalists created tools for comparative insights across counties, combined data for fuller pictures of community health and used data visualization to reveal disparate health outcomes.
Health Data Liberator Award Honors Work to Help Consumers Make Smarter Choices
Award winner Robert Krughoff is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Services /Consumers’ Checkbook, an independent non-profit organization that improves transparency in health care and promotes greater consumer understanding of health care information.
Medical Experts—Let’s Stop Criticizing Digital Health Records and Start Building Something Better
In this blog post, Health Datapalooza speaker Edward S. Kim, MD, FACP, emphasizes the need for digital health records to reflect the on-the-ground realities of medicine.
Special Issue Highlights Health Care Transformation through Delivery System Research
This special issue published in AcademyHealth’s open access, peer-reviewed journal, commemorates 25 years of the Health Care System Research Network’s rigorous research to improve health outcomes and health systems’ performance by leveraging electronic health data.
Survey Seeks Health Data Community’s Thoughts on the Future of Innovation in Health Care
As part of the 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza, AcademyHealth is fielding a survey on hot topics in health data. The survey will remain open until 3 pm ET on Wednesday, March 27.
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”.
Implications, Questions and Actions for Patient-Centric Digital Health
Responding to remarks by HHS Secretary Alex Azar and other speakers at NHPC in February, Erin Williams of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights areas where new proposed CMS and ONC interoperability rules and other federal action could promote patient-centric digital health.
Academic Medical Center Chief Data Scientists: Pathways of the Pioneers
Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, sits down with two pioneers in data management to discuss their experiences.
New Law Enacts Recommendations of Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
AcademyHealth member and health economist Sherry Glied provides an overview of a new law that will both facilitate health services research and offer new opportunities for this research to influence policy.