Using Health Data

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.

Past Event

Back to School: Statistical Methods, Training, and Resource Needs for the Public Health Workforce

This webinar provides a review of trends in statistical methods used in public health, resources for the effective use of public health data, and implications for training needs in the public health workforce.

Date & Time Wednesday, September 6, 2017 2:30 p.m.ET Location Online

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data

Publication

CHP Bright Spot: Improving Care for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness - A Systems & Data Mapping Approach

This Bright Spot from AcademyHealth's Community Health Learning Program highlights useful insights from the Louisiana Public Health Institute's work to leverage health information technology to improve outcomes for individuals with serious mental illness.

Posted Aug 28, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Data Sharing Public & Population Health

Publication

CHP Bright Spot: Developing a Collaborative Consent Process

This Bright Spot profile from AcademyHealth's Community Health Learning Program highlights useful insights from the North Coast Health Improvement and Information Network's work to enhance care coordination for clients served by permanent supportive housing and shelter programs.

Posted Aug 28, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Public & Population Health

Blog Post

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Health Care Quants

Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC and 2018 Health Datapalooza Steering Committee member Greg Downing explores the nature of data science and the trends around methods that are rendering actionable insights from data across all aspects of health care.

Posted Aug 17, 2017 By Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza

Publication

Social Impact Assessment for Community Health: A Learning Guide

This learning guide and supporting materials offer insights and lessons learned to organizations and projects looking to measure the social impact of community-level health work.

Posted Jun 27, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Public & Population Health Using Health Data

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Data Sharing, Care Coordination, and Population Health: A Learning Guide

This learning guide and supporting materials offer insights and lessons learned to those considering or already implementing a community health information exchange.

Posted Jun 27, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Public & Population Health

Publication

CHP Bright Spot: Failing Forward Together

This Bright Spot profile from AcademyHealth's Community Health Learning Program highlights useful insights from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center's efforts to improve transitions from the hospital back into the community.

Posted Jun 26, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Public & Population Health Hospitals & Health Systems

Blog Post

2017 Annual Research Meeting: Day 1 Highlights

Posted Jun 25, 2017 By Brian Cardillo, M.A.

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Using Health Data ARM

Publication

A tall order on a tight timeframe: stakeholder perspectives on comparative effectiveness research using electronic clinical data

This article, written by EDM Forum participants and published in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research in 2012, outlines findings from a needs assessment on developing new infrastructure for comparative effectiveness.

Posted Jun 14, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement

Publication

Lessons from the Electronic Data Methods Forum: Collaboration at the Frontier of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, and Quality Improvement

This Medical Care journal supplement, published in 2013, provides lessons learned based on experiences building transparent, scalable, reusable networks for research and quality improvement.

Posted Jun 14, 2017

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data Delivering Better Care