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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Recognizing and Uplifting the Legitimacy of Patient Experts for Better Health Data Tools and Policies

In this final post in a series, ePatient and Security Researcher Andrea Downing highlights where we need to build professional skills and lower barriers for patient experts to be part of a team in health care.

Posted Feb 9, 2020 By Andrea Downing

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Using Health Data Health Datapalooza National Health Policy Conference

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Bridging Clinical and Research to Action and Impact

In this fourth post in a series leading up to Health Datapalooza and the National Health Policy Conference, Rasu Shrestha highlights ways clinicians and researchers can move their findings faster into policy, health systems and tech development.

Posted Jan 31, 2020 By Rasu Shrestha, M.D., M.B.A.

Topics Using Health Data Hospitals & Health Systems Health Datapalooza National Health Policy Conference

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Why We Need Less Data and More Story in the Evidence We Present

In the second of a two-part series, guest author Andy Krackov discusses visualizing your findings in ways that are accessible to a broader audience.

Posted Jan 29, 2020 By Andy Krackov

Topics Using Health Data Analytic Tools

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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.

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