Using Health Data

Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, outlines recent policy directives related to artificial intelligence, shares digital health and health policy experts’ perspectives on them, and highlights key takeaways for health care policymakers and researchers.

This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Low-Value Care, focused on linking diverse data sets and the potential for using data linkages in studying and addressing low-value care.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.