Single Payer: Two Trillion-Dollar Headlines, One Complicated Question
This blog discusses single payer estimates, evidence, and potential risks.
Rethinking Stakeholder Engagement in Quality Improvement Projects
This blog discusses how to engage stakeholders in the research process and avoid common pitfalls.
AcademyHealth’s New Tracker Reveals Impact of AHRQ Grant Cancellations
This resource tracks terminated AHRQ grants and the states, people, and communities impacted.
Medicaid HCBS Waivers: Where You Live Dictates Your Care
This blog discusses the state variation in Medicaid HBCS Waivers and strategies to advocate for waiver services.
Millions Could Lose Medicaid Coverage. Will Work Requirements Increase Employment?
This blog is a nonpartisan examination of federal Medicaid work requirements, Medicaid frailty exemptions, and the impact on coverage loss and employment outcomes.
What We Learned from 10 Years of Health Data for Action
This blog discusses the success of Health Data for Action, such as supporting data integration and contributing to policy discussions.
Transformational, Not Transactional: Reflections From Community-Led Research Teams
This blog discusses the value and impact of community-led research on meeting specific community needs and elevating lived experiences for change.
The Evidence Effect: How Research Helped Lower Insulin Costs
This blog discusses the research that helped implement actionable policy for monthly insulin caps for Medicare patients, improving access to diabetes care and affordability.
Birthing People Connect With Doula Care to Help Improve Their Birthing Outcomes and Experiences
This publication discusses what a doula is and how doula care can support birthing people.
Harnessing the TAF Analysis Reporting Checklist to Elevate Transparency in Medicaid Research
This blog provides a TAF Analysis Reporting Checklist to assist researchers in conducting and reporting studies using TAF data.
Why New Leadership Approaches Matter for Today’s Health Sector
This blog shares two leadership models that policy professionals and health leaders can utilize to support teams and navigate ambiguity.
$35 Insulin Cap: From Data Research to National Policy
This blog discusses data's role in creating policy change for insulin costs and shares recommendations for researchers.
LGBTQ and Minority Stress Theory: Representative, Nuanced Data is Critical
This blog discusses the unique disparities LGBTQ+ community members face and the importance of data to improve health outcomes.
Price Transparency: Promise and Peril
This blog explores how healthcare markets shift with increased pricing transparency and its implications.
Health Data for Action: Brokering Data and Research Partnerships for Public Good
This blog discusses how to bridge gaps between data providers and researchers to make health data more accessible.
Ahead of Health Datapalooza, CMS Commits to Better Health Data Access
This blog discusses the recent CMS initiative to modernize public health data, how it impacts health data, and potential challenges.
Price Transparency in Healthcare: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Forward
This blog discusses price transparency rules, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
Paving the Path for a Brighter Future of Public Datasets
This blog discusses current efforts to preserve and restore public data and advocacy recommendations for saving the future of federal datasets.
Beyond Data Points: How Community Stories Are Reshaping Reproductive Healthcare
This blog discusses the importance of community stories and lived experiences in systems change and reproductive care research.
The Role of Crowdsourcing as Researchers Respond to Public Health Data Loss
This blog discusses innovative crowdsourcing efforts that have emerged as a result of the new administration's modifications to or removal of public health surveillance data.
Oral Health is Health: Why We Must Stop Overlooking the Mouth
This blog discusses oral health and the importance of collaboration to prevent oral diseases.
How the Older Americans Act Final Rule is Making a Difference
This blog covers the key aspects of the OOA Final Rule and the business acumen for Areas Agencies on Aging to maximize funding.
What’s in a Name? For the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, it’s Everything
This blog shares how the AHRQ is critical to healthcare and providing quality care to patients.
Recommendations for Mental Healthcare in Rural North Carolina
This blog shares findings from mental health systems research and youth-led recommendations for improving policies in rural areas of North Carolina.
Listening to the Voices of Black Women: The Reality of Racism in Medicine
This blog post shares the experiences of African American women in Mississippi to address local healthcare system issues.
Consistent Implementation of Health IT in Community Mental Health Care Needs Stronger Policymaker Support
This blog discusses how federal and state policy approaches can improve the expansion of electronic health records and health IT connecting community mental healthcare to the rest of the health system.
New AcademyHealth Report Explores Challenges and Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence in HSR
This blog explores the potential AI has to advance health research and care and the associated challenges and opportunities of its usage.
Indigenous Health Equity and the Need for Representation in Health Care
This blog interviews a researcher leading a project assessing the barriers to advancing and sustaining American Indian and Alaskan Native students in undergraduate medical and nursing education programs.
Utilizing Community-Based System Dynamics to Address Health Care System Inequities
This blog explores how a community-based system dynamics methodology enables teams to understand and collaboratively address complex issues such as health equity.
A Pathway to Creating High-Value, Equitable Care
This blog emphasizes the importance of the High-Value, Equitable Care Research Agenda on improving the quality of care for all.
How MODRN Aims to Improve Quality Measurement and Inform Medicaid Policy
This blog examines MODRN's early contributions to quality measurements and how it benefits states and university partners.
21st Century Health Challenges: Building Capacity to Address the Climate Crisis through Health Services Research
Part 1 of this blog series provides an overview of health systems resiliency and the role of health services research in building a resilient health system.
A Mindset & Innovative Tools for Integrating Health and Equity into Policymaking Across Sectors
This blog reviews tools and approaches developed and refined to center health and equity in policymaking.
AcademyHealth advocates for data policy access field to CMS
This blog summarizes the successful advocacy tactics employed by AcademyHealth and outlines the potential harm of CMS' data access restrictions policy.
Promoting Digital Health Equity
This blog introduces new resources about people with disabilities and improvements to AcademyHealth's Resource Hub to make it more accessible for all.
Insights Into the Behavioral Health Workforce and the Services They Provide
This blog reviews new projects addressing the strategic aims of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to gain a nuanced understanding of the behavioral health practitioner workforce.
Navigating Social Drivers of Health in Medicaid Managed Care
A new Health Affairs blog describes the cultural shift in Medicaid managed care post-COVID-19 to address the social needs of enrollees.
Breastfeeding Can Help Save New Black Moms — Who Are Nearly 3 Times More Likely To Die
This blog discusses how programs that support lactation professionals can support Black women beyond delivery.
Recommendations for Building a Diverse and Inclusive Healthcare and Health Services Research Workforce
This blog builds on the webinar by outlining key recommendations to maintain diversity and foster inclusion in college admissions and the workforce.
Addressing Maternal Mortality Through Improved Data Collection and Access
The blog explores why improving collection of and access to high-quality data is imperative in helping policymakers understand and develop effective solutions to address mechanisms that lead to poor maternal health outcomes.
Timely, Relevant, And Inclusive Data Empowers Researchers to Drive Health Policy Change
This blog shares details behind AcademyHealth's range of activities to advance data equity, support data learning networks, and extend access to highly valuable datasets for research.
From Data to Action: A Health Services Researcher Goes to Washington, and Rethinks How to Share Evidence to Inform Policy
This blog examines Health Data for Action grantee Carrie McAdam-Marx's journey to take her research on insulin out-of-pocket costs to policymakers on Capitol Hill.
Businesses are Integral Partners in the Ecosystem to Improve Health and Well-Being
This blog discusses how business’ place-based investments can advance health, wellbeing, and equity.
The Future of Health Services Research – A Special Conversation with Monica McLemore
This web series spotlights new voices and ideas in health services research. In this video, Dr. Monica McLemore, nurse-scientist and clinician of 28 years talks about using research to address racism, funding and implementation, and her hopes for the future of HSR and nursing sciences.
AHRQ Advances the Mission for Relevant, Effective Population Data
This blog explore three newly released or trial-phase databases and their implications for future health services research, spotlighted at a recent panel discussion hosted by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Efforts to Improve EHR Data for Maternal Health Research Featured in Healthcare IT News
This blog outlines a collaborative approach that led to the development of an implementation guide to support mapping maternal health data across clinical areas and use cases.
The Benefit of Affirming Care for LGBTQ+ Population Health
This blog post by researchers at AcademyHealth discusses the benefits of having an affirming provider to address health inequities among LGBTQ+ older adults, as well as shares resources to increase capacity for LGBTQ+ affirming care.