The explosion of health-related data has created new opportunities to understand how health care is delivered, paid for and preserved. Health services evidence helps us understand how to identify, validate, share and analyze data to improve health.
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.
In a new Heart of Healthcare podcast episode, guest host Lucia Savage is joined by Dr. Vindell Washington of Verily and Dr. Aaron Carroll of AcademyHealth for a candid conversation about the uneven standards we apply to digital versus traditional care. Join us at Health Datapalooza in September to continue this discussion.
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.
AHRQ helps us keep pace with change, by making sure clinical research has real-world impact. Given yesterday’s HHS reorganization announcement, we’re highlighting the agency’s impact on HSR and health systems.
Dr. Philip Payne and Dr. Aditi Gupta offer a resource aimed at equipping health services researchers with the knowledge and capabilities to effectively utilize AI’s advantages.
