Addressing Low-Value Care: The Promise of Electronic Health Data
The wealth of new, electronic health data sources presents new opportunities for conducting research on and ultimately eliminating low-value care.
Adopting Clinical Analytic Tools in your Institution’s Health Information Management Strategy: Peril or Promise?
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker Rebecca Freeman provides first-hand reflections on the complexities of making something useable out of the data quagmire many find themselves standing in.
Special Issue Focuses on Data’s Potential to Drive Health System Transformation
Research in a special issue sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlights new data insights and capabilities that respond to rapid change in the way researchers, clinicians, patients, policymakers and others use data to transform health care.
Eleven States Partner to Examine Medicaid Strategies to Combat Opioid Use Disorder
Cross-state analysis is often hindered by data sharing challenges. A new Medicaid Distributed Research Network seeks to advance knowledge through the use of a Common Data Model.
Evaluating Health Care Innovation in Five Easy Steps
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker and AcademyHealth member Lisa Green encourages consumers and researchers to consider the strengths and shortcomings of data used to measure the effectiveness of health care interventions, models, and policies.
Health Data and Health Policy Come Together in February 2020
AcademyHealth President & CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson describes the thinking behind co-locating the annual Health Datapalooza and AcademyHealth’s National Health Policy Conference and announces the opening of calls for presentations and presentation reviewers.
HSRProj Back to School Webinar: How to Search, Communicate, and Disseminate Your Research
This introductory seminar explored effective search, communication, and dissemination strategies and provided an overview of resources publicly available through the National Library of Medicine for public health and health services and policy researchers to use in their work.
Webinar: Leveraging Well-Being Measurement to Shift Narratives about Health and What Matters
This webinar looked at global and national perspectives to explore the results of using well-being metrics.
Government Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence Science & Technology Taking Shape
Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, outlines recent policy directives related to artificial intelligence, shares digital health and health policy experts’ perspectives on them, and highlights key takeaways for health care policymakers and researchers.
Webinar: Data Linkages and Applications for Low-Value Care
This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Low-Value Care, focused on linking diverse data sets and the potential for using data linkages in studying and addressing low-value care.