Takeaways From Health Affairs’ Big Data Twitter Chat
Recently, we at Health Affairs hosted a Twitter chat with the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) on the topic of big data. The chat was a follow-up to the Health Affairs issue, “Using...
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Price Transparency: Removing The Blindfold
Shopping for health care is like shopping blindfolded in Macy’s, says noted health care economist Uwe Reinhardt — consumers don’t know what they are buying or how much it will cost until they have paid...
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Should Health Lawyers Pay Attention To The Administration’s Privacy Bill?
Health care lawyers justifiably ignored the 2012 Obama administration consumer privacy framework because it expressly and broadly exempted entities subject to HIPAA, stating “To avoid creating...
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The Quality Tower Of Babel
The quest for better health care, driven by measuring safety and quality, is well intentioned and has notable achievements. But like the Biblical story about building a better city, the measurement...
View ArticleCall For Submissions: Health Affairs Brings Back DataWatch
Health Affairs is now encouraging submissions to its DataWatch section. What Is DataWatch? DataWatch articles are short papers (2,000 words or less) that highlight data that “speak for themselves”...
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Putting Data To Work To Improve Health
Editor’s note: Chris Boone will be answering questions during a live Health Affairs Twitter Q&A, Friday, May 15, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET using #healthdatanow. The health data movement started with a...
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Advancing The Use Of Health Data In Research With PCORnet
More effective use of the vast quantities of health data generated every day is central to most conversations about how to improve patient care and outcomes. Beyond traditional research models, the...
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Promoting Transparency And Clear Choices In Health Care
A funny thing is happening at the intersection of culture and health and spilling over into politics and policy — a vigorous demand for transparency in health care. Various forces are driving this...
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The Latest Health Wonk Review
If you are looking for reading material as you await King v. Burwell, you can check out the most recent Health Wonk Review at Boston Health News. Tinker Ready has a great collection of posts, including...
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In Pursuit Of Hospital Quality: Creating Effective Performance Measures And...
When Garrison Keillor of “Prairie Home Companion” fame welcomes his radio audience to Lake Wobegon, his fictional Minnesota town, he describes it as a place where, “all the children are above average.”...
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Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List
Editor’s note: “Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List” is a monthly roundup where we share some of the most compelling health care narratives driving the news and conversation in recent weeks. Cut Off...
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New Heath Care Symposium: A Healthy Skepticism Of Incumbents, A Healthy...
Editor’s note: This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog symposium stemming from “The New Health Care Industry: Integration, Consolidation, Competition in the Wake of the Affordable Care Act,” a...
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To Identify Patients For Care Management Interventions, Look Beyond Big Data
Five percent of patients incur nearly 50 percent of United States’ health care costs, and there is growing evidence that investing resources in these individuals can improve care while decreasing...
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Not Your Typical Health Conference: Takeaways From Spotlight Health
For the second year, a small Health Affairs team attended Spotlight Health in beautiful Aspen, Colorado. With life-sized scrabble games and lemonade stands by Jack, Spotlight Health is different from...
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The Culture Of Data Sharing Has To Change
While the role of data and data sharing and its significance in transforming our nation’s health care system is sometimes overlooked, the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) is...
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Building The Value-Based Health Care System Of The Future Depends On Meeting...
Data is the lifeblood of the value-based payment environment. Every time a doctor takes care of a patient, we have an opportunity to use information in ways that help patients get better care. The goal...
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Four Lessons In The Adoption Of Machine Learning In Health Care
The March issue of Health Affairs demonstrates the potential of health care delivery system innovation to improve value for both patients and clinicians. Technology innovations such as machine learning...
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The Tower Of Babel In Clinical Research: PCORnet’s Common Data Model Cracks...
Across all medical specialties, there is a severe lack of high-quality clinical evidence, in part because the gold standard for evidence is large-scale randomized controlled clinical trials. Such...
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Managed Care Companies Should Publish Lessons Learned From Studying Their Own...
In this era of big data, managed care companies have comprehensive data sets from which to extrapolate and report precise and meaningful findings about health services. With pay-for-performance models...
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