Using Health Data

Written by Kentucky members of AcademyHealth’s State-University Partnership Learning Network, this issue brief distills how the Family First Prevention Services Act changes child welfare policy and practice, and offers insights on how data from state Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS) can be used to produce high-quality research and evaluation.

This publication is a part of a series in collaboration with Milbank Memorial Fund building on findings from AcademyHealth's Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network and focuses on the policy options states can leverage to impact the quality of OUD treatment for Medicaid enrollees. 

By partnering with state agencies, public universities have an opportunity to conduct research and engaged scholarship to advance their mission of public service.

Established state-university partnerships support evidence-based state health policy and practice to transform Medicaid-specific care and improve outcomes.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is making new COVID-19 data available under its Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.

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.

This webinar served as a preview of the Health Care Cost Institute's expanded commercial claims dataset and its availability for research.