Using Health Data

Kim Warren, Carlos Ramos Gomez-Rejón, and Anne Gauthier of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, reflect on the 2018 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) sharing three critical factors at play in the ability to leverage data to advance learning health systems.

This environmental scan, conducted by AcademyHealth, assesses existing guidance about sharing critical information within and across organizations and sectors in order to better serve populations.

The first papers published in the ongoing section, Better Decisions Together, in AcademyHealth’s open access, peer-reviewed journal eGEMs highlight work to advance patient-centered clinical decision support.

Julia Adler-Milstein, one of the theme chairs for the Digital Technologies and Health track at this month’s 2018 Annual Research Meeting, highlights key themes including progress and challenges around interoperability, health IT’s impact on health care delivery and communication, the rise of consumer health IT solutions, and the latest research on telemedicine.

The Health Care Systems Research Network is seeking submissions to include in a forthcoming special issue of eGEMs that will serve as an evidence-informed toolkit to address the complex attributes of health and health care.

The second in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post explains how new data sources and research methods are giving us a better and deeper understanding of patients’ behavior and recommendations for how to leverage that.

The first in a two-part series on complex interventions, this post highlights the opportunities to better understand not just whether an intervention worked or not, but how, for whom and why it did or didn’t.

Paul Wallace, veteran Datapalooza attendee and AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence, shares his four impressions from last week’s meeting.

A new data challenge coming this summer will make data from the Healthiest Communities Rankings available to contestants to design and implement community level interventions.

Winners of the award were recognized at Health Datapalooza for their work on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, an open platform for sharing humanitarian data.