By Joel Cohen PhD & David Meyers MD – The new Administration has made protecting and expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare one of its top priorities. This commitment will require policy decisions on critical issues ranging from expanding access to health insurance to healthcare inequities.
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By Gopal Khanna MBA – The COVID-19 crisis has emerged as a lethal threat to Americans in all age groups, among all races and ethnicities, in communities urban and rural. It is one of the deadliest outbreaks in more than a century, testing our current public health and healthcare delivery infrastructure like no other.
By Herbert Wong PhD – Once a year, AHRQ and AcademyHealth are pleased to recognize the researchers whose peer-reviewed journal articles make the best use of data from one of AHRQ’s primary data sources—the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
By Gopal Khanna MBA – A few weeks ago, I wrote about my vision for creating an AHRQ 2.0—transforming the Agency into a leader in health services research in a digital age. I described four pillars that are central to this effort. The first pillar is: developing a platform to create data-informed insights.
By Richard Kronick PhD – As part of AHRQ’s mission to help the public understand and use health care data, I’m excited to announce the launch of a new Web tool that allows analysis of the latest State-by-State information on hospital discharges.