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Catherine Hersey and Shellery Ebron, both of AcademyHealth organizational affiliate RTI, describe key takeaways from last June’s Annual Research Meeting with a focus on the importance of using stories to make research findings relatable to diverse audiences across a variety of settings.

Several particularly notable moments at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting suggested that patient-centered approaches will continue to feature, significantly and sustainably, as the field of health services research (HSR) advances.

Kim Warren, Carlos Ramos Gomez-Rejón, and Anne Gauthier of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, reflect on the 2018 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) sharing three critical factors at play in the ability to leverage data to advance learning health systems.

Presentations at this year’s Annual Research Meeting underscored the importance of looking beyond the numbers to assess value, both in terms of the ultimate cost/benefit of an intervention as well as the factors that we assume influence value.

Highlighting research presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in June 2018, Rebecca Bruno of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, points to solutions for addressing social determinants of health and improving health outcomes and reduced costs of care for the Medicaid population.

New research presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting also reveal significant gender and racial disparities in patterns of opioid prescriptions for dental conditions.

Studies presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting also examine linkages between Medicaid and preventable hospitalization and health care quality.

Studies presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting shed new light on health disparities

Margo Edmunds, director of the AcademyHealth Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Minority Engagement in Health Services and Policy Research, highlights sessions on disparities and health equity at next week’s Annual Research Meeting during which attendees will have the chance to see the field from different perspectives.