Our Partners

Alosa Health partners with state governments, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, health care systems, practices, and foundations to develop academic detailing programs, trainings, and materials.

Current Partners of Alosa Health:

Aetna

In late 2019, Alosa Health launched a pain management and opioid use disorder academic detailing initiative for Aetna, spanning over a dozen states. The program received national media attention (Washington Post) for innovation and was active through mid-2024. Alosa academic detailers completed over 17,000 provider education visits for this project. In early 2024, Aetna transitioned the project to focus on addressing diagnosis and disease management options for Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias. This work is ongoing.

Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health

In 2020, Alosa was awarded a contract through the Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health to support the Delaware Public Health Substance Use Disorder Project. The goal of this program is to build on existing successful state opioid prescribing efforts and align the use of academic detailing to address issues that lead to non-evidence-based treatment of patients with pain, and/or OUD. This work is funded through a CDC Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) grant. In 2021, Alosa entered into a second contract with Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health as part of a SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework for Prescription Drugs (SPF-Rx) grant. This contract involves conducting academic detailing sessions and developing CE materials for healthcare providers throughout the state of Delaware to improve acute pain youth prescribing. Both the OD2A and SPF-Rx contracts are ongoing. In 2024, the contracts were transferred from the Division of Public Health to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

Indian Health Service (IHS)

Alosa provides academic detailer training and materials development consulting for the IHS. Topics for this project include pain management and immunizations.

Louisiana State Opioid Response (LSOR)

In partnership with Tulane University, Alosa Health began a SAMHSA-funded program in late 2019 to help educate Louisiana physicians to expand the utilization of buprenorphine among x-waivered providers.

NH Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services

In 2023, Alosa was awarded a contract by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services to conduct academic detailing outreach to primary care providers throughout the state via funding from a CDC Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) grant.

Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE)

Our longest-running program, Alosa Health trains and manages a team of clinical educators that are on the ground across the state of Pennsylvania. Alosa Health collaborates with PACE to annually develop modules on three clinical topics relating to care of the elderly and provides content training and academic detailing skill-building for the clinical educators.

Veterans Affairs Academic Detailing Service

VA pharmacists participate in an Alosa Health-led training that provides background on academic detailing methods and application. Trainings are tailored to the VA system and its unique needs. Additional consultation has been provided to design and develop clinical modules on behalf of the VA Academic Detailing Service.

Previous Partners

Allegheny County Health Department – Community Health Workers

In 2023, Alosa was awarded a contract through the Allegheny Health Department to conduct outreach to healthcare providers throughout the County and spread information and resources about Community Health Workers.

Allegheny County Health Department

As part of the general Pennsylvania Department of Health Overdose Data to Action grant, Allegheny Department of Health received a portion of funding to conduct pain management academic detailing in Allegheny County. Alosa Health conducted academic detailing outreach to providers in the County from 2020 – 2023.

Atrius Health

Using our module on responsible opioid prescribing, Alosa Health developed a tailored educational program on this topic for the clinical pharmacists at the Atrius healthcare system in Massachusetts.

Centre for Effective Practice (CEP)

Alosa Health provided training on the concepts of academic detailing and consultative services to CEP to launch a new academic detailing program in the province of Ontario.

HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration (HAHSTA)

In partnership with HAHSTA, in Washington, DC, Alosa Health developed trainings related to Hepatitis C screening and Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT). Alosa Health managed and trained a clinical educator in the District and collaborated on the development of materials about HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP).

Hospital Sisters Health System

Focusing on interventions relating to the care of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Alosa Health provided content training on the evidence-based management of COPD and academic detailing training to medical home staff.

Maine Independent Clinical Information Service (MICIS)

Maine participated in clinical content trainings and used clinical modules developed by the Alosa Health team within their own academic detailing program.

Maryland Department of Health (Baltimore, Maryland)

The Maryland Department of Health (MDOH) selected Alosa Health after an open bidding process to provide academic detailing training, program management and clinical content development services to address the rising epidemic of congenital syphilis in neonates in the city of Baltimore. This program targeted 200 obstetrics and gynecology physicians.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Our collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health focused on key programs to improve patient safety, such as reducing antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes and the responsible prescribing of opioids. Alosa Health provided a complete program, developing the clinical content for the programs as well as training and managing the clinical educators.

Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (MA HPC)

Alosa was awarded funding through the state of Massachusetts to support the implementation of academic detailing in select accountable care organizations (ACOs) throughout the state. Alosa trained clinicians from three ACOs on the topic of diabetes management and provided materials for educational outreach efforts.

NACCHO + CDC

Alosa Health has participated in four pilot programs with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the CDC. The first contract covered educational outreach to healthcare providers about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in partnership with the Allegheny County Health Department in Pennsylvania (2021). Alosa worked on two contracts in Delaware: one in New Castle County on the topic of integrating positive and adverse childhood experiences (IPACE) into pediatric care (2022). The other was based in Suffolk County and involved conducting academic detailing sessions with primary care providers about harm reduction strategies and resources available in southern Delaware (2022). Our fourth contract focused on bringing harm reduction resources to healthcare providers throughout Franklin County, Ohio (2023).

Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN)

Alosa has an active program in the state of Michigan with OPEN to conduct a trial evaluating the effectiveness of an academic detailing intervention on opioid prescribing among dentists. In 2022, Alosa ran a small academic detailing program for OPEN conducting educational outreach to vascular surgeons about opioid prescribing.

Pennsylvania Department of Health

From 2019 – 2023, Alosa was awarded a contract by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to conduct academic detailing outreach to providers across the state of Pennsylvania as part of a federal Overdose Data to Action grant.

Shelby County Health Department

To reduce the spread of HIV in Shelby County, Tennessee, Alosa Health developed education on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as well as training and managing a clinical educator to visit with primary care practices to expand knowledge of and access to PrEP services.

Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living

In collaboration with the Vermont Health Care Association, Alosa Health participated in an intervention to reduce antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes through academic detailing, the OASIS program and Music and Memory.

Vermont Health Care Association (VHCA)

The Vermont Health Care Association contracted with Alosa Health on a three pronged an intervention to reduce antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes through academic detailing, the OASIS program and Music and Memory.