Count on Stats spoke with Jennifer Madans, Ninez Ponce, and Charles Rothwell—experts on the National Center for Health Statistics—for our series, State of the Data Infrastructure. They discuss how the pandemic exposed the agency’s challenges with budget, stature, and profile.
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Panel Provides Insights on Real-World Evidence in Health Care
Real-world data (RWD) can come from a variety of sources, including claims, electronic health records, biobanks, genomics tests, and imaging modalities. Increasingly, it is coming from digital data through electronic health and mobile health modalities. Recent events have pushed innovation in the use of RWD to maximize the value of real-world evidence in an era of big data, data science, and artificial intelligence.
ASA Sponsors New Health Care Technology Podcast
Looking to stay up to date on developments in health care technology? Tune in to “The Pod of Asclepius,” a new podcast!
NIH-Funded Short Course Planned on Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research
The University of Alabama will host an NIH-funded short course, titled “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research,” at the University of Alabama at Birmingham July 24–28.
Experiences as a Biostatistician at an Academic Health Center
Here, Cindy Weng and James Grady share how they learned to collaborate, prioritize, and appreciate their work as consultants at academic health centers.
The Statistician’s Role in an Integrated Health Care System
The need to improve the effectiveness of clinical care delivery is greater than ever. Here, Intermountain Healthcare clinicians Karen Valentine, Roberta James, and Cempaka Martial discuss a statistician’s role in an integrated health care system.