Company Profile
Altarum Institute
Company Overview
Altarum Institute is a nonprofit health systems research and consulting organization. Altarum integrates independent research and client-centered consulting to create comprehensive, systems-based solutions that improve health. With the rigor of the finest research institution, consulting skills honed over more than six decades, and an abiding commitment to the public interest, Altarum Institute enables better care and better health for all people.
Systems research is the work Altarum performs to help clients understand and solve the underlying issues that cause the health care delivery and financing systems they oversee to become inefficient, ineffective, or unsustainable. The Altarum Institute Systems Change Model informs every aspect of the Institute’s efforts to respond to the needs of our clients and funders and to make “better health” a reality. This model considers the larger environment in which systems operate and problems arise. It identifies critical interactions within and across systems and focuses on the root causes that can lead systems to fail. The ability to visualize this “complete picture” enables comprehensive solutions to complex health care problems, facilitating sustained performance improvement and organizational learning.
Altarum is widely recognized for providing its clients with research and solutions that are technically robust, pragmatic, and carefully aligned with the cultural norms of the populations being served. Altarum’s technical service offerings are grouped into the following five categories, which are applied across a wide range of domains in which the Institute has developed deep expertise:
• Health Research and Analysis
• Health Program Development and Evaluation
• Health Care Strategy, Operations, and Finance
• Health Promotion, Conference and Web Services
• Clinical Research Support and Pharmacovigilance
Company History
As systems researchers, Altarum Institute begins with the understanding that there is no single health care “system.” Health and health care depend on a complex fabric of systems that are constantly interacting and shaping human health. Our Systems Change Model helps us see the broader environment in which these systems operate and in which problems arise. This methodology identifies critical system interactions and focuses on the root causes that can lead a system to fail. Through our systems research and the Systems Change Model, we help you visualize the whole picture – ensuring a more comprehensive and sustainable solution to your problem.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Altarum Named one of Washington, D.C. Area’s “Excellent Workplaces”
Altarum Institute Named one of Metropolitan Detroit's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For"
Altarum Institute named as one of “Top Workplaces” by Detroit Free Press
Benefits
Altarum's dynamic work environment emphasizes integrity, personal commitment, and teamwork. In addition to the meaningful and challenging work, Altarum offers an outstanding benefits program that includes paid time off, tuition reimbursement, 401k (5% employer contribution), a flexible work environment, and much more. We invite you to explore exciting and rewarding career opportunities with us.
Altarum is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V.