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is 163752676 Nurse Patient PaperworkEconometrica has formed a dedicated Clinical Practice Team consisting of healthcare professionals from a variety of healthcare disciplines. The addition of this team augments the technical capabilities of Econometrica’s Health Group to provide expertise in training, information diffusion, health research, quality measure development, monitoring, evaluation, technical assistance, and data analytics.

The team will be led by Dr. Kristie McNealy and includes a geriatric nurse practitioner and two registered nurses with clinical experience spanning primary care, acute care, hospice, home health, and rehabilitation settings.

The Clinical Practice Team provides clinical and health operations insights to a range of Econometrica’s projects, including supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in selecting clinically relevant quality measures for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model and developing training content around patient assessment and coding for nurses and quality staff working in post-acute care settings. Team members also provide valuable perspective on the challenges providers face in delivering and coordinating care in different settings and the barriers beneficiaries experience attempting to access the care they need.

“The Clinical Practice Team will continue to support our various healthcare projects as well as allow Econometrica to support new projects in the areas of medical records abstraction, electronic health records, and clinical consultation,” President/CEO Cyrus Baghelai said. “We look forward to offering our clients and partners these expanded services.”

With healthcare and related industry trends constantly evolving, Econometrica’s experts use a variety of research and evaluation methods to provide innovative approaches for each client. In recent years, our Health Group, has developed tailored technical assistance plans for CMS, including working with States in accessing and using CMS data sources under the State Data Resource Center contract; has had more than 250,000 provider impacts based on trainings focused on understanding and complying with the IMPACT Act on the Post-Acute Care Training contracts; and has had 3 quality measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum under our Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly contract.

About Econometrica

Founded in 1998, Econometrica is a research and management organization in Bethesda, MD, established to provide public- and private-sector clients with customized program support services. Econometrica works with multiple agencies to provide high-quality, cost-effective analyses, modeling, and economic evaluations. The company consistently receives exceptional scores from its clients and believes in three principles: technical capabilities, happy customers, and business development.

With healthcare and related industry trends constantly evolving, Econometrica’s experts use a variety of research and evaluation methods to provide innovative approaches for each client.