Using Health Data

Longtime Health Datapalooza champion Lucas Tramontozzi reflects on what brings him back to the conference each year. One of his biggest takeaways is that Health Datapalooza isn’t just a mirror of where the field stands today-it’s a compass pointing to where it needs to go next.

At the recent AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, a diverse panel representing researchers, industry leaders, state representatives, and federal policy experts discussed the challenges and opportunities in unlocking the full potential of price transparency. The blog highlights some promising paths forward.

In Health Affairs Forefront, AcademyHealth CEO Aaron Carroll highlights the real-world impact of the Administration’s removal of critical datasets, AcademyHealth's federal lawsuit to get the datasets restored, and ways you can get involved and support our work.

As the intersection of health care and technology continues to expand, the role of health information technologies (HIT) is ever more critical. The Health Information Technology Interest Group spoke on a panel on the intersection between HIT and innovation and offer practical challenges of implementing cutting-edge solutions in real-world health care settings.

2024 NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge winners leveraged the National Health Interview Survey and the Health and Retirement Study survey to explore differences in hearing difficulty based on demographic and socioeconomic predictors.

Winners of the 2024 NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge utilized publicly available county-level health data, County Health Rankings, and NCHS datasets to evaluate the relationship between food insecurity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity across various regions of the U.S.

Federal datasets are the backbone of the nation’s ability to inform evidence-based policymaking, support scientific research, and promote societal well-being. The final blog in our data series highlights why it’s imperative to advocate for their preservation and restoration.

As our blog series has highlighted, the removal of public health data has impeded research and has serious implications for the scientific enterprise. In response, several crowdsourcing efforts have emerged in an imperfect effort to fill the gap.

This latest installment in our data series explores the crucial role of data for upholding the principles of scientific integrity—historically a shared priority among those who make decisions about federal support for data access, maintenance, and quality.