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Quality Improvement

Quality improvement is central to achieving high-value care. Learn how we collaborate with all industry stakeholders to identify and bridge measurement gaps and advance patient care.

Daniel Day

Addressing the Diagnostic Journey for Rare Disease Patients

Avalere’s white paper draws on recommendations from a multi-stakeholder workshop to look at roadblocks and solutions for scaling sustainable solutions to address the diagnosis of rare disease.

Emily Belowich

Podcast: Huntington’s Disease: Challenges and Treatment

Tune into another episode in the Avalere Health Essential Voice podcast series focused on disease education. In this segment, our experts from the Center for Healthcare Transformation discuss Huntington’s Disease, its impact on caregivers, the complexities of genetic testing, and potential treatment options for this rare disorder.

Emily Belowich

Video: Huntington’s Disease: Challenges and Treatment

Tune into another episode in the Avalere Health Essential Voice podcast series focused on disease education. In this segment, our experts from the Center for Healthcare Transformation discuss Huntington’s Disease, its impact on caregivers, the complexities of genetic testing, and potential treatment options for this rare disorder.

Amanda Napoles

Advancing Diabetes Care in the Era of CGM: Dialogue Proceedings

As one of the most common chronic conditions in the US—affecting approximately 10.5% of the US population and growing—diabetes (and the optimal management of this condition) remain a persistent healthcare challenge.1

Christina Badaracco

Video: Malnutrition and Quality Improvement

Tune into another episode of Avalere Health Essential Voice. In this segment of our Disease Education series, experts from our Center for Healthcare Transformation discuss the burden of malnutrition on our healthcare system and how an Avalere-led quality improvement initiative has helped systems across the country improve malnutrition identification and treatment.

Christina Badaracco

Podcast: Malnutrition and Quality Improvement

Tune into another episode of Avalere Health Essential Voice. In this segment of our Disease Education series, experts from our Center for Healthcare Transformation discuss the burden of malnutrition on our healthcare system and how an Avalere-led quality improvement initiative has helped systems across the country improve malnutrition identification and treatment.

RWE Strategy Leads to Support for Avalere-Developed Composite Measure

Avalere was pleased to partner with the nutrition community to develop and test the Global Malnutrition Composite Score, which has now received conditional support from the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP)—pending endorsement by the National Quality Forum (NQF)—for inclusion in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program.

Oladeji Faborode

Podcast: Strong Start in Birth Centers: Socio‐Demographic Characteristics, Care Processes, and Outcomes for Mothers and Newborns

Tune into another episode of Avalere’s Journal Club Review podcast series on Avalere Health Essential Voice. In this segment, our experts discuss the findings, themes, and implications of a recent study that analyzed CMS Strong Start results to determine outcomes for mothers and newborns engaged in care with American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) sites.

Christina Badaracco

Accelerating Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice

On November 3, the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics published an article entitled “Implementation Science in Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice: Considerations for the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist,” co-authored by Christina Badaracco.

Podcast: Obstetric Quality Terminology by AAPI Subgroups and Equitable Patient Engagement

Tune into our first episode of Avalere’s Journal Club Review podcast series on Avalere Health Essential Voice. In this segment, Courtney Ramus, Consultant in the Center for Healthcare Transformation and Jasmine Nicole Namata, Associate in the Associate Immersion Program discuss the findings, themes, and relevant application of a contemporary healthcare publication.

Debbie Lucas

Just Launched: Implementation Guide for the First Hypoglycemia Measures

In December 2019, Avalere Health and Endocrine Society launched the first quality measurement set designed to help providers assess how well they identify and care for older adults at greater risk of hypoglycemia – low blood sugar that can be a dangerous complication of diabetes.

Updated National Malnutrition Blueprint Advances Integrated Solutions

Citing alarming statistics that nearly 1 of every 2 older Americans is at risk of malnutrition and that disease-associated malnutrition in older adults is estimated to cost nearly $53 billion annually, a broad group of advocates has presented a updated roadmap for a continuing national effort to help millions of Americans who suffer from malnutrition or could be at risk as they age. The expected rising incidence of malnutrition amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic makes it even more critical to advance solutions across all points of care.

Debbie Lucas

Avalere Partners with Industry Leaders to Address Hypoglycemia in Older Adults

Avalere collaborates with the Endocrine Society and Pottstown Medical Specialists to launch a quality improvement intervention study aimed at addressing care gaps in the identification and management of hypoglycemia in older adults with type 2 diabetes.

Identifying Payer and Provider Opportunities for Quality Measures Alignment

This past spring, Avalere and MITRE experts presented “Implementation of the Core Quality Measures Collaborative (CQMC) Core Measure Sets by Public Payers: Successes and Opportunities” at the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) annual meeting.

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