Annual Impact Report

Altarum announces that Palladian Partners has been awarded a position on the NIH Public Information and Communication Services (PICS III) contract. This achievement highlights Palladian's dedication to enhancing lives through strategic communication and public health initiatives.

In response to this overwhelmingly high rate of opioid misuse and related deaths, the local Nord Family Foundation commissioned Altarum to further understand the nature of the problem and identify resources, needs, and potential solutions. Altarum implemented its three-phase approach to analyze current resources and determine where additional resources and services are needed.

Altarum announced today that Thomas Ranese, a marketing executive and LQBTQA+ advocate, has joined Altarum’s Board of Trustees, effective January 1, 2023.

Altarum hosts a secure online portal for the Health Care Survey of DOD Beneficiaries (HCSDB), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Health Agency (DHA) Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), Defense Health Agency, Analytics and Evaluation Division. Learn more about the purpose of the survey and how it will be conducted.

The program supports states and non-profit organizations as they build integrated maternal and early childhood comprehensive systems of care that are equitable, sustainable, and inclusive of the health system.

The latest HSEI briefs show that national health spending continues to accelerate, health care prices continue to rise faster than economywide inflation, and health care jobs accounted for nearly half of all jobs added across the economy in July.

New issue brief details how Community Care Core aligns with ACL’s national strategy to support family caregivers and offers recommendations for future.

The latest Altarum Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs incorporate new health spending data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), confirming the slowdown we had been reporting in national health spending growth in 2021. This accompanying blog provides a detailed comparison of the new 2021 CMS data with our previous HSEI estimates for 2021.

How can we improve care coordination and health outcomes for older adults with higher needs? The John A. Hartford Foundation-funded report explores a promising AAA/D-SNP model in Indiana that integrates the age-friendly 4Ms framework and how it might be replicated nationwide.

In this blog, we update information in these previous studies with estimates of state-level per-capita spending in 2022 and spending growth from 2019 through 2022.