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.

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Learning from Past Progress to Advance the Future of Digital Health

Ashish Atreja reflects on advances in digital health and identifies trends to watch for the future in this third of a series of blog post prior to Health Datapalooza and the National Health Policy Conference.

Posted Jan 24, 2020 By Ashish Atreja, M.D., M.P.H., FACP

Topics Using Health Data National Health Policy Conference Health Datapalooza

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Don’t Blame Your Audience if They’re Not Leveraging Your Data

In the first of a two-part series, guest author and data strategist Andy Krackov outlines practical tips on making sure your data is noticed by the right people.

Posted Jan 22, 2020 By Andy Krackov

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Using Health Data

Past Event

Webinar: Closing the Data Gap

This webinar explored how Dataworks closes a key data gap by providing access to near real-time EMR data to help researchers better understand the health care burden of patients.

Date & Time January 15, 2020, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data Sharing

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Access to Big Data: A Catalyst for Policy Change

RWJF’s Health Data for Action Program, managed by AcademyHealth, awards 19 new studies

Posted Jan 15, 2020 By Megan Collado, M.P.H.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Using Health Data

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States Identify Top Medicaid Policy Areas for Future Multi-state Data Analysis

Results from an AcademyHealth investigation highlight four shared Medicaid policy priorities across 22 states: substance use disorder, behavioral health integration, maternal mortality, and social determinants of health.

Posted Jan 13, 2020 By Susan Kennedy, M.P.P., M.S.W., Logan Sheets

Topics Using Health Data Data Sharing Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

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Cross-state Medicaid Data Provides New Insights into the Opioid Epidemic

The University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Kaiser Family Foundation leveraged the AcademyHealth’s Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network to profile the epidemic in six states along several measures not available in public data.

Posted Dec 23, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

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How to Become a Data Viz Wiz: Taking your Data Visualizations to the Next Level

AcademyHealth staff member Angel Han shares tips for creating interactive data visualizations of trends in health services research using the National Library of Medicine’s HSRProj database.

Posted Dec 18, 2019 By Angel Han, M.P.H.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Using Health Data

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Challenges in Health Data Do Not Exist in a Vacuum

Co-located Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference co-chair Niall Brennan highlights the importance of diverse perspectives to solve our most pressing health care challenges in the first of a series of blog posts prior to the February meeting.

Posted Dec 12, 2019 By Niall Brennan, B.A., M.P.P.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care Health Datapalooza National Health Policy Conference

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Why is Cloud Technology the Right Prescription for Health Care?

Marty Puranik, President & CEO of Atlantic.Net, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outlines the benefits of cloud technology including data storage and scalability, collaboration and increased interoperability, use of AI and machine learning, security, and cost reductions.

Posted Nov 26, 2019 By Marty Puranik

Topics Using Health Data Hospitals & Health Systems

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The Power of Person-Generated Health Data: Five Ways to Improve the Care Experience

AcademyHealth and a group of diverse stakeholders are working to develop a unifying framework for using person-generated health data in shared decision-making.

Posted Oct 31, 2019 By Margo Edmunds, Ph.D.

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Using Health Data Delivering Better Care