what we do
ACHIA makes it easy for primary care practices to improve and sustain quality care for children and youth
The proverbial estimate is that it takes 17 years to incorporate new knowledge into clinical practice. Barriers to speedier implementation include insufficient opportunities to learn about updated practice guidelines and, perhaps more crucially, insufficient abilities to change and improve clinical systems to reliably deliver quality care. ACHIA addresses both barriers through annual quality improvement (QI) learning collaboratives.
ACHIA's Collaborative Learning Approach for Improved Patient Outcomes
The collaborative structure is inspired by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Series Collaborative Model which closes the gap between ‘what we know and what we do’. This model brings together practices interested in improving care so they may learn from each other and content experts to close the gap quickly. The Model for Improvement (MFI) is the QI tool utilized to rapidly improve clinical systems. With the MFI, practices build multiple, planned tests of change to capture learning in small increments followed by iterative cycles which identify whether a test will work on a larger scale.
