Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has appointed Marilyn Moon, Vice President and Director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research, to serve as chair of the 15-member Maryland Health Care Commission.
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 established the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in 2015 to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula and to reward clinicians who provide high-value, high-quality care to Medicare patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the first year of the ...
Today, success isn’t just about what you know. It’s also about how quickly you can grasp and apply new knowledge. That’s the theory behind “deeper learning,” a broad term encompassing the goals of an increasing number of U.S. schools and school systems. In a series of reports, researchers at AIR ...
AIR has been awarded a five-year contract to continue to provide support to a federal program that rewards clinicians that provide high-value, high-quality care for Medicare enrollees. AIR will support clinicians’ participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for ...
Over a million people in the U.S. are currently living with profound vision loss (PVL). This project conducted a literature review and patient focus groups to capture, categorize, and prioritize symptoms of PVL towards the development of a clinical outcome assessment.
High-quality early care and education (ECE) provides an important foundation for young children’s success in school and in life. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AIR conducted a scan of efforts to improve access to quality ECE for low-income, minority families in other countries that might inform learning ...
Many children and adolescents who experience mental health issues do not receive the care they need. In this video, Galen Cole, AIR principal researcher, explains how the mental health care system can better serve children, adolescents, and their families and ensure they receive the treatment they need. ...
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."
Foundations invest millions of dollars to carry out their missions and change the world. How do they know their investments are working? AIR uses the strongest research evidence and deep experience in systems change across multiple sectors to support foundations, large and small, in fulfilling their missions. ...
Educational policies on early grade literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean have long suffered from a disjuncture between school practice and research. This systematic review examines the effectiveness and fidelity of implementation of various programs in the LAC region that aim to improve EGL outcomes, including teacher training, school ...