Between 2001 and 2010, Massachusetts recorded 639 homicide victims aged 14 to 24. In response, the state implemented a variety of violence reduction programs, most recently through the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative, which AIR and its partners are evaluating.
The Regional Extension Centers provided technical assistance to physicians and other clinicians in individual and small practices to adopt, implement, and meaningfully use electronic health records. AIR conducted a multiyear, mixed-method, independent national evaluation of the program.
AIR serves as one of five organizations under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide analysis, training, and technical assistance to states and providers participating in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program authorized under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, or HITECH, Act. ...
AIR conducted a literature review and focus groups to identify a reliable and valid Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to document health outcomes for patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD).
With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding, AIR is working with the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission to evaluate the effects of the State of Maryland's modified payment structure for acute inpatient stays at non-federal hospitals.
For nearly a decade, AIR supported the John M. Eisenberg Center for Clinical Decisions and Communications Science at the Baylor College of Medicine in turning comparative effectiveness research results into practical information for decision making. Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Eisenberg Center translated and disseminated ...
Disadvantaged populations are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. AIR helps support the distribution of free materials that raise public awareness around human trafficking and connect victims to emergency services.
In 2005, AIR was awarded a five-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting System to assist the two organizations in the planning and implementation of the Ready to Learn Outreach Grant. This innovative grant is designed to locate and connect ...
AIR is the evaluation partner for the Defense STEM Education Consortium (DSEC), a collaborative partnership between academia, industry, not-for-profit organizations, and government that aims to broaden STEM literacy and develop a diverse and agile workforce to power the U.S. innovative defense infrastructure. ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.