Alison Rein
Senior Manager

Alison Rein is a Senior Manager at AcademyHealth. She works on several projects related to quality improvement and consumer engagement within the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer program. Ms. Rein also serves as the AcademyHealth project manager for the AHRQ Quality-Based Purchasing Knowledge Transfer project, and is working to expand AcademyHealth's involvement in state and national efforts to integrate health information exchange systems into the U.S. Health care system. She serves on a number of advisory bodies related to health information exchange, including the Confidentiality, Privacy, & Security work group of the American Health Information Community, and the Health Information Protection Taskforce of the State Alliance for e-Health.

Prior to joining AcademyHealth, Ms. Rein was Assistant Director of Food & Health Policy at the National Consumers League (NCL), where she represented consumer interests in a variety of issue areas. Recognizing the efficiency and quality gains that could be generated through appropriate health data exchange, Ms. Rein encouraged heightened consumer involvement in local, regional, and federal government efforts to design an interoperable Nationwide Health Information Network. Prior to joining NCL, Ms. Rein served as a health care consultant to a number of private and non-profit organizations, for which she conducted strategic evaluations, market studies, and research efforts aimed at evaluating the relative-effectiveness of numerous drug, biologic, and device interventions. She holds a masters degree in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester , and has co-authored several articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals.