This ‘plain language summary’ reviews recent research on how Veteran’s Affairs might ensure adequate access to high quality care via network adequacy standards. Network adequacy standards are common in the commercial market, where states regulate commercial insurers provider network. However, the regulations vary from state to state and the VA is a national system.
In a recent webinar in collaboration with the National Pharmaceutical Council, experts discussed how to evaluate SDOH programs and interventions from a cost perspective. Speakers emphasized the incomplete state of current knowledge and the need to improve studies and data infrastructure to determine their value.
Voices of a New Paradigm: The AcademyHealth Paradigm Project is profiling leaders whose work helps point Health Services Research (HSR) in a new direction. Some are new to HSR, while others may just be new to us—leaders in other fields whose work is inspiring or applicable. All are challenging the limits of the current paradigm in ways that help make HSR more effective.
AcademyHealth’s Paradigm Project is looking outside the health care field for inspiration in reimagining health services research. AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Robin Strongin highlights the role visual arts can play in exposing racial bias and draws insights from racial equity efforts in the museum world that could be applied to health care.
This members-only event featured an engaging conversation with Mark E. Miller, Executive Vice President of Health Care at Arnold Ventures and AcademyHealth’s CEO, Lisa Simpson, about the health care research priorities of Arnold Ventures and what it takes to submit effective research proposals.
Date & Time May 13, 2021, 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Location Online
Using COVID-19 vaccine distribution as an example, AcademyHealth members illustrate the need for a health equity framework to help avoid the perpetuation of disparities already embedded in our systems and processes, or create new ones.
Dan Gorenstein, host and executive producer of the national health policy podcast Tradeoffs, highlights ways health policy researchers and academics can share their work with reporters.
This webinar was part of series which seeks to promote serious evidence-based discussions related to costs, value, and allocation of health care spending.
Date & Time May 4, 2021 | 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location Online
In this recorded presentation from the 2021 Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference, Kimberly Proctor of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, reviews how her division uses T-MSIS data to facilitate Medicaid and CHIP analytics.
