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Healthiest Communities’ Data Challenge Finalists Recognized at 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza

Finalists created tools for comparative insights across counties, combined data for fuller pictures of community health and used data visualization to reveal disparate health outcomes.

Posted Mar 28, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Building Healthy Communities Health Datapalooza News

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Health Data Liberator Award Honors Work to Help Consumers Make Smarter Choices

Award winner Robert Krughoff is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Services /Consumers’ Checkbook, an independent non-profit organization that improves transparency in health care and promotes greater consumer understanding of health care information.

Posted Mar 28, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza News

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Medical Experts—Let’s Stop Criticizing Digital Health Records and Start Building Something Better

In this blog post, Health Datapalooza speaker Edward S. Kim, MD, FACP, emphasizes the need for digital health records to reflect the on-the-ground realities of medicine.

Posted Mar 27, 2019 By Edward S. Kim, MD, FACP

Topics Using Health Data Delivering Better Care Health Datapalooza

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Special Issue Highlights Health Care Transformation through Delivery System Research

This pre-publication commentary introduces a special issue of AcademyHealth's open access, peer-reviewed journal commemorating 25 years of the Health Care Systems Research Network's rigorous research to improve health outcomes and health systems’ performance by leveraging electronic health data.

Posted Mar 26, 2019

Topics Using Health Data Hospitals & Health Systems

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Survey Seeks Health Data Community’s Thoughts on the Future of Innovation in Health Care

As part of the 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza, AcademyHealth is fielding a survey on hot topics in health data. The survey will remain open until 3 pm ET on Wednesday, March 27.

Posted Mar 26, 2019 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Using Health Data Health Datapalooza

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New Playbook Focuses on 11 Strategies to Add Prevention to the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic

The National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC), an initiative led by AcademyHealth and Stewards of Change Institute, has recently published, “The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook”.

Posted Mar 5, 2019 By Zenneia McLendon

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health Using Health Data

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Implications, Questions and Actions for Patient-Centric Digital Health

Responding to remarks by HHS Secretary Alex Azar and other speakers at NHPC in February, Erin Williams of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, highlights areas where new proposed CMS and ONC interoperability rules and other federal action could promote patient-centric digital health.

Posted Feb 13, 2019 By Erin Williams, J.D.

Topics Using Health Data National Health Policy Conference

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Academic Medical Center Chief Data Scientists: Pathways of the Pioneers

Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, sits down with two pioneers in data management to discuss their experiences.

Posted Feb 6, 2019 By Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D., Subha Madhavan, Ph.D., Nicholas Soulakis

Topics Using Health Data Data Sources Data

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New Law Enacts Recommendations of Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

AcademyHealth member and health economist Sherry Glied provides an overview of a new law that will both facilitate health services research and offer new opportunities for this research to influence policy.

Posted Jan 31, 2019 By Sherry Glied, Ph.D.

Topics Research Ethics & Governance Using Health Data

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The Healthy Marketplace Index: Furthering Transparency to Improve our Understanding of Commercial Healthcare Markets Across the Country

A new report from the Health Care Cost Institute, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, examined relative healthcare prices across the U.S. and found widespread healthcare price variation across metro areas.

Posted Nov 19, 2018 By Bill Johnson, Ph.D., Kevin Kennedy, BS , Niall Brennan, B.A., M.P.P., Sally Rodriguez, MPH

Topics Using Health Data Paying for Care Costs & Payments