2020 Health Data Leadership Institute
Leveraging data and navigating federal policy for health system transformation.
2020 Health Datapalooza
The gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice.
Webinar: Closing the Data Gap
This webinar explored how Dataworks closes a key data gap by providing access to near real-time EMR data to help researchers better understand the health care burden of patients.
Access to Big Data: A Catalyst for Policy Change
RWJF’s Health Data for Action Program, managed by AcademyHealth, awards 19 new studies
States Identify Top Medicaid Policy Areas for Future Multi-state Data Analysis
Results from an AcademyHealth investigation highlight four shared Medicaid policy priorities across 22 states: substance use disorder, behavioral health integration, maternal mortality, and social determinants of health.
Cross-state Medicaid Data Provides New Insights into the Opioid Epidemic
The University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Kaiser Family Foundation leveraged the AcademyHealth’s Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network to profile the epidemic in six states along several measures not available in public data.
How to Become a Data Viz Wiz: Taking your Data Visualizations to the Next Level
AcademyHealth staff member Angel Han shares tips for creating interactive data visualizations of trends in health services research using the National Library of Medicine’s HSRProj database.
Challenges in Health Data Do Not Exist in a Vacuum
Co-located Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference co-chair Niall Brennan highlights the importance of diverse perspectives to solve our most pressing health care challenges in the first of a series of blog posts prior to the February meeting.
Why is Cloud Technology the Right Prescription for Health Care?
Marty Puranik, President & CEO of Atlantic.Net, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, outlines the benefits of cloud technology including data storage and scalability, collaboration and increased interoperability, use of AI and machine learning, security, and cost reductions.
An Overview of the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network
The Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN) supports evidence-based state health policy and practice with a focus on transforming Medicaid-based health care, including improving the patient experience with care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care.