PQA teams up with AllazoHealth to study medication adherence standards

Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) formed a formal research partnership on Wednesday with AllazoHealth to study and improve industrywide standards for medication adherence metrics.

The nonprofit PQA develops and maintains medication-use performance measures and medication adherence metrics used by industry and government organizations, including the Health Insurance Market Quality Rating System.

AllazoHealth has experience predicting patients’ adherence to medications and identifying the best ways to improve medication adherence while monitoring the impact on health care costs and clinical outcomes.

“Through this partnership, AllazoHealth’s research will help determine ways to expand the settings of clinical care for use of PQA’s medication adherence metrics,” PQA Senior Vice President of Performance Measurement and Strategic Alliances Woody Eisenberg said. “One objective of this research will be to identify ways in which the adherence metrics can be harmonized with other existing metrics used within accountable care models that can lead to measurable improvements in clinical outcomes.”

The research partnership also will seek to assess the clinical and financial impact of increasing patients’ medication adherence in a variety of different clinical settings, including in accountable care organizations.

“PQA is an extremely important standard setting body for medication adherence,” AllazoHealth CEO Clifford Jones said. “We are happy to be working directly with PQA to improve the way medication adherence is measured.”