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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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.

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

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Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech

In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care.

Posted Oct 9, 2019 By Aneesh Chopra, M.P.P., Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

Past Event

2019 Health Data Leadership Institute

Leveraging data and navigating federal policy for health system transformation.

Date & Time September 25-26, 2019 Location AcademyHealth Office, Washington, D.C.

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data Sharing

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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.

Posted Sep 23, 2019 By Marya Khan, M.P.H.

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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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.

Posted Sep 20, 2019 By Rebecca Freeman, Ph.D., R.N., P.M.P.

Topics Using Health Data Hospitals & Health Systems Delivering Better Care