Using Health Data

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.

New eGEMs section seeks to realize the dream of genuine patient-centered clinical decision support.

New eGEMs Papers Explore How Learning Health Systems Can Use Routinely Collected EHD to Advance Knowledge and Support Continuous Learning

A new special issue in AcademyHealth's peer-reviewed, open access journal eGEMs dissects the problems and potential of big data to overcome delivery system challenges.