This word cloud documents the prevalence of terms within the titles of all papers in the 2013 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) after removing the terms "health," "care" and "research."
As you can see, in addition to health care research, AcademyHealth focuses on use and cost of quality medical services in hospitals, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Year-to-year comparison But you might be wondering how has the landscape changed in the past year, well we've done that analysis too. We maintain a focus on use, cost, and quality, especially in hospitals. The public has shrunk on our agenda, although we remain centered on the patient. We continue to study Medicare extensively (perhaps because of the richness of the data).
We're now studying state Medicaid to an unprecedented degree. But where have comparative and effectiveness gone? Perhaps replaced by a PCORI-led emphasis on patient engagement.
We seem to be worrying less about impact and more about effects; more about program implementation and less about clinical improvement; more about practice and less about insurance coverage.
AcademyHealth AcademyHealth is the country's largest organization of health services and health policy researchers who study the the organization, delivery, management and financing of U.S. health care. The annual 3-day research meeting is the organization's largest gathering and includes a broad array of reports and panel discussions focused on the latest research on health care cost, quality and access.
Leonard Davis Intitute The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) is the hub of the University of Pennsylvania's health policy research and one of the country's largest such research centers. Its 200 senior fellows analyze the medical, economic, and social issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed, and delivered across the U.S.
Eighteen of LDI's senior fellows are speakers at this AcademyHealth Research Meeting. See the list.
A word cloud or "tag cloud," is a visual expression of a weighted list of terms that appear in a given document or compliation of documents, in this case, the titles of all papers at the meeting. The word cloud format has been popularized by search engines and social media sites that use it for key word displays relevant to the content.
