How Academic Detailing Supports Accountable Care Organizations
Alosa Health Founder and Chief Clinical Consultant, Jerry Avorn, MD discusses healthcare’s move toward accountable care organizations (ACOs) and how academic detailing can assist with those efforts. As ACOs and other models of organizing patient care continue to expand in the United States, optimal use of medications and treatments play a key role in these strategies. Academic detailing can support ACOs by providing healthcare practitioners with the information they need to make informed prescribing decisions for their patients.