With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AcademyHealth hosted this expert meeting to explore research priorities related to the evaluation of Section 1115 Medicaid demonstrations and Section 1332 state innovation waivers.
Date & Time Oct. 17, 2017, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Location Washington Marriott at Metro Center
The holy grail in health care is not fancier technology and tools, it is physician and patient behavior change. Machine learning will truly come of age when it can improve the decision-making of clinicians and patients or improve their efficiency in carrying out the actions that follow from those decisions.
As the country and its leaders consider the future shape and scope of health care coverage, hundreds from across the health policy community converged at the National Health Policy Conference.
Lisa Simpson, AcademyHealth President and CEO, opened the 2018 AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference with the following remarks, encouraging attendees to find the areas of opportunity for progress in the year ahead.