# High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Research and Education Conference

> **NIH AHRQ R13** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $49,687

## Abstract

Project Summary
In 2016, academic medical centers joined together to form the High Value Practice Academic Alliance
(HVPAA, www.hvpaa.org), a multi-institutional multispecialty organization designed to efficiently and effectively
advance value-based quality improvement initiatives on a national scale by opening channels of
communication. Nearly 200 faculty leaders from > 80 academic centers in the US and Canada serve as
institutional or departmental representatives (www.hvpaa.org/faculty/). Members convene on monthly
conference calls for information sharing and educational presentations, organize an annual research and
education conference, collaborate on multicenter practice improvement initiatives and publications and direct a
high value care future leader professional development program for residents and fellows.
This proposal is requesting support for the 2nd annual HVPAA Research and Education Conference. An
important outcome of the 2017 inaugural HVPAA conference was that the collective performance improvement
work contributed to a blueprint that encompasses all of the areas health systems must address to become truly
high value care centers. To effectively refine medicine, QI efforts must be implemented across the following 5
pillars (1) Diagnostic and therapeutic efficiency, (2) quality-driven care pathways, (3)
transitions, (4) Optimizing patient care setting and (5) Preventative medicine
Discharge
The HVPAA annual conference serves as a venue to generate publication of individual quality improvements
initiatives and foster collaboration on multicenter performance improvement guides and research
investigations. The editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine invited all of the 2017 abstract presenters to
submit their work to be reviewed for potential publication, as high value care is a priority topic for the journal.
JAMA Internal Medicine has been very receptive regarding HVPAA multicenter performance improvement
guides and already published the 1st two, with two more of the papers in press. For the 2018 conference, the
Journal of Hospital Medicine will review top scoring inpatient hospital abstracts to be considered for solicitation,
and we are pursuing additional journals to similarly review medical, surgical, radiology and pediatric initiatives
for solicitation as publications.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9965908
- **Project number:** 5R13HS026350-03
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Pamela T Johnson
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $49,687
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-07-01 → 2021-12-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9965908

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9965908, High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Research and Education Conference (5R13HS026350-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9965908. Licensed CC0.

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