Using Health Data

A learning network aims to address barriers to implementing research findings in clinical care through patient-centered clinical decision support. Research in this emerging area will be featured in Better Decisions Together, a new special section in AcademyHealth’s journal eGEMs.

Blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change the way we transact, automating agreements while reducing the need for trust and intermediaries in multi-party transactions- How can you take advantage of blockchain for health-related applications today and in the future?

Finalist projects for the inaugural Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Award leverage data to improve health and outcomes in their communities.

Blockchain is an emerging technology that has the potential to significantly disrupt many industries from finance and banking, to health care and energy. But what is blockchain, how does it work, and when should you consider it?

Read the latest from the National Interoperability Collaborative and its work to increase collaboration among the sectors that impact health and well-being by improving information-sharing, interoperability, and use of technology.

This 2015-2017 Progress Report details how AcademyHealth worked with our members, partners, and funders to make both health care and research better all with the aim of making health and health care better for everybody.

The holy grail in health care is not fancier technology and tools, it is physician and patient behavior change. Machine learning will truly come of age when it can improve the decision-making of clinicians and patients or improve their efficiency in carrying out the actions that follow from those decisions.

Today, it seems we are data rich and information poor. This blog post is a wakeup call for us to actively seek the insights from big data technologies.