Working Together to Modernize Health Care
AcademyHealth joins an alliance aimed at achieving large-scale connected integration, and transforming the health sector into a health system.
Seeing Last Year’s Comments in Action in 2017
Last year – as part of our ongoing charge to ensure health services research is accounted for in federal policy – AcademyHealth submitted several comments to federal policymakers -- among them were responses to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects and the NPRM on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This year we’ve seen final rules on both these subjects released.
AcademyHealth CEO Poses Key Question for 2017 in Health Affairs
Will evidence matter in 2017? If we want to truly transform health and health care in this country, it must. AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson writes about the key areas in health policy where evidence should matter most.
New Year, Same Resolution: Championing Health Services Research in Washington
Day in and day out, AcademyHealth works to ensure that the best evidence – evidence from our members and other bright minds working throughout health services and policy research – is used to inform policy and practice. Our advocacy efforts are core to that mission.
The New York City Macroscope: A New Model for Monitoring the Health of Communities
Research published in AcademyHealth’s eGEMs journal reveals a new model for monitoring the health of communities that is more efficient than traditional methods while still providing reliable information about a population’s health.
Explaining the Value of Data Sharing: Lessons Learned
The Community Health Peer Learning Program and Data Across Sectors for Health share lessons learned from explaining the value of data in health care.
Preparing Nursing Home Data from Multiple Sites for Clinical Research
Nursing home research is often obstructed by the limited amount of research-quality patient data present in electronic form. In this case study, authors converted nursing home patients’ health data regarding falls and fall-related injuries into electronic forms to create a database for nursing home research using their converted data.