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Three Key Considerations for Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Patient Engagement

Susan Mbawuike of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, shares perspectives on applying digital health tools to help patients engage in their health, expanding on discussions at the 2018 Health Datapalooza and Annual Research Meeting.

Posted Aug 30, 2018 By Susan Mbawuike

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Data Sources Analytic Tools

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When It Comes to Collaboration, Sectors Emphasize Technical Aspects Over Cultural Ones

In a review of technical documents and toolkits on interoperability, what we found was almost as interesting as what we didn’t.

Posted Aug 24, 2018 By Margo Edmunds, Ph.D.

Topics Data Sharing Data Sources Building Healthy Communities

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Data as a Strategic Institutional Asset to Catalyze Healthcare Delivery Innovation

With a massive growth in data and information, there is a bounty of opportunity for value creation at hand. But delivery systems will have to be strategic about the use of data in order to be truly innovative.

Posted Aug 23, 2018 By Aparna Higgins, M.A., Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Using Health Data Quality Improvement Delivering Better Care

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An Investment in Supportive Housing is an Investment in Health

A recent study published in the Health Services Research Journal by Sungwoo Lim and colleagues found that a supportive housing program positively affected both housing stability and preventable health care visits among homeless families.

Posted Aug 20, 2018

Topics Public & Population Health Building Healthy Communities

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Researchers with Experience in Real World Evidence Have Potential to Transform Care

Building on efforts to tailor health care decisions to the needs of individual patients, Sanofi is partnering with AcademyHealth to offer a fellowship supporting skills in the management and analysis of real world data.

Posted Aug 16, 2018 By Juhaeri Juhaeri

Topics HSR Workforce Development Using Health Data

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Patient-centered Approaches: Accepted & Increasingly Expected

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.

Posted Aug 14, 2018 By Rachel Dungan, M.S.S.P.

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement ARM

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Harmonizing Data & Facilitating Its Use Across Entities to Advance the Learning Health Care System

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.

Posted Aug 8, 2018 By Kimberly Warren, Carlos Ramos Gomez-Rejón, Anne K. Gauthier, M.S.

Topics Using Health Data Data Sharing ARM

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Voices from the Field: Community Actions that Helped Build Urban Health Equity

In the second of a two-part series, this post highlights work in Richmond, California to transform the city into a place where everyone has the opportunity to live a healthy life.

Posted Aug 6, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Building Healthy Communities Health Equity Public & Population Health

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Voices from the Field: Culturally Appropriate Services to Support Healthy Mind, Body, Spirit

In the first of a two-part series, this post highlights the work of Native American Connections to provide culturally appropriate behavioral health, affordable housing, and community development services.

Posted Aug 2, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health Health Equity

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Widening Our Lens: Researchers Challenge Narrow Definitions of Value

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.

Posted Jul 31, 2018

Topics Costs & Payments Public & Population Health Costs & Payments ARM