Program Implementation

Altarum seeks to be a disruptor—fostering population health innovation nationwide. Our success starts with our experts' drive and their deep domain expertise in public health and health care delivery. Let us help you deliver more efficient and impactful programs.

Services

Planning • Execution • Evaluation

How are we improving health of vulnerable populations? By helping state WIC programs transition to participant-centered services. By leading coalitions of community organizations to reduce opioid misuse and abuse. By establishing an innovative care delivery system to prevent childhood dental disease. And that's just the beginning. 

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SmileConnect®

Our integrated oral health care model is used by states and counties to ensure more children are getting preventive dental care. 

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Michigan Center for Effective IT Adoption

Altarum helps providers comply with Meaningful Use and improve the quality, efficiency, and security of their operations.

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Peer Recovery Training and Support 

We're advising organizations across the US, from local jurisdictions to state agencies, on how to implement peer recovery programs.

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Helping Small Practices Comply with the CMS Quality Payment Program  

Through funding from CMS, Altarum provides free, customized technical assistance to small practices on complying with the Quality Payment Program.

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WIC in Minnesota

Helping the Minnesota Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program transition to a participant-centered approach.

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Detroit Opioid Prevention Collaborative

We led a community partnership that equips professionals with the training and tools they need to reduce opioid abuse and save lives.

Program Implementation Contact

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Emily Ehrlich

Emily Ehrlich  - MPH, PMP

Director, Behavioral Health

Areas of Expertise
  • Integration of Health Care Services
  • Substance Use Disorder Prevention
  • Quality Improvement & Clinical Decision Support

Emily has more than 25 years of experience in health care policy and research, including co-authoring 15 peer-reviewed publications and directing a CMS-funded program to train 4,000 primary care and behavioral health providers in depression screening and safe opioid prescribing. Emily leads Altarum’s behavioral health work, which includes implementing peer recovery programs, creating a patient outcomes registry to improve mood disorder treatment, and delivering training and technical assistance to help communities address the opioid crisis. Emily has a master’s degree in health behavior and health education and is a certified Project Management Professional.

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Tara Fowler

Tara Fowler  - PhD, MPH, CPH

Director, Healthy Women and Children

Areas of Expertise
  • Applied Research and Analytics
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Qualitative Research

Tara leads a portfolio of work in children’s and women’s health, oral health, and nutrition. She has led a variety of multifaceted quantitative and qualitative research projects that deliver insights to leaders of government health agencies, from the Defense Health Agency to the Health Resources and Services Administration. Her recent work includes an evaluation of a HRSA-funded program implemented in 16 states to improve oral health of low-income pregnant women and infants. Tara holds a PhD in public health from the University of South Florida.

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