Using Health Data

The National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC), an initiative led by AcademyHealth and Stewards of Change Institute, has recently published, “The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook”.

Responding to remarks by HHS Secretary Alex Azar and other speakers at NHPC in February, Erin Williams of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights areas where new proposed CMS and ONC interoperability rules and other federal action could promote patient-centric digital health.

AcademyHealth member and health economist Sherry Glied provides an overview of a new law that will both facilitate health services research and offer new opportunities for this research to influence policy.

When it comes to harnessing the power of data for tangible change, challenges range from the cultural to the technical. This post focuses on a new opportunity from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that addresses perhaps the most critical step in this effort: data access.