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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”.

Posted Mar 5, 2019 By Zenneia McLendon

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health Using Health Data

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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.

Posted Feb 13, 2019 By Erin Williams, J.D.

Topics Using Health Data National Health Policy Conference

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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.

Posted Feb 6, 2019 By Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D., Subha Madhavan, Ph.D., Nicholas Soulakis

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data

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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.

Posted Jan 31, 2019 By Sherry Glied, Ph.D.

Topics Research Ethics & Governance Using Health Data

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The Healthy Marketplace Index: Furthering Transparency to Improve our Understanding of Commercial Healthcare Markets Across the Country

A new report from the Health Care Cost Institute, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, examined relative healthcare prices across the U.S. and found widespread healthcare price variation across metro areas.

Posted Nov 19, 2018 By Bill Johnson, Ph.D., Kevin Kennedy, BS , Niall Brennan, M.P.P., Sally Rodriguez, M.P.H.

Topics Using Health Data Paying for Care Costs & Payments

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Making Valuable Data Available to Researchers is a Critical Step in Moving Data to Action

When it comes to harnessing the power of data for tangible change, challenges range from the cultural to the technical. This post focuses on a new opportunity from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that addresses perhaps the most critical step in this effort: data access.

Posted Nov 15, 2018 By Megan Collado, M.P.H.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Data Sources

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Health Data for Action 2018 Applicant Webinar

This webinar provided information about the second call for proposals for Health Data for Action, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation signature research program.

Date & Time November 9, 2018 1:30-3:00 pm

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Data Sources

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AcademyHealth and HIMSS Join Forces to Leverage Health and Health Care Data to Support Changes in Policy and Practice

New collaboration will power a year-round suite of activities and outreach focused on advances in digital health applications, data resources, and evidence to improve health and health care

Posted Oct 11, 2018 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care Health Datapalooza

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Think You’re Saving Money by Cutting Corners on HIPAA? You’re Wrong

Marty Puranik, CEO of Atlantic.Net, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, assesses compliance with data privacy and security regulations and outlines methods to cut costs associated with compliance.

Posted Oct 10, 2018 By Marty Puranik

Topics Using Health Data

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Leveraging Patient Insights to Improve Genetic Test Reports

Interview with eGEMs author Jessica Goehringer about her new paper.

Posted Oct 4, 2018 By Jessica Goehringer

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Using Health Data eGEMs