AHA Committee on Research



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Research Questions

- 2010-2012 Top Research Questions Fact Sheets

- Answering AHA’s 2010-2012 Research Questions Overview

- AHA Internal Resources

- External Resources

Strategic Issues Forecasting Reports

- 2015 SIF Report

- 2010-2012 SIF Report

Research Reports

- A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health, January 2011

- Patient-Centered Medical Home, September 2010

- Accountable Care Organizations, June 2010

- Bundled Payment, May 2010

Other Resources

AHA Committee on Research Members

HRET to Study Critical Health Delivery Issues in H&HN

Back to Basic Bundle Payment and the Board's Role in Trustee Magazine 

Board's Role in Trustee Magazine

Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence

Center for Health Care Governance

American Hospital Association

The Committee on Research (COR) of the American Hospital Association has annual and triennial tasks that focus on developing the AHA Research Agenda. The committee monitors the process toward answering the AHA Research Agenda questions and studying a topic in depth for reporting to the AHA Board and the field. The committee will be co-chaired by the AHA Chair-Elect and the HRET Board Chair. The committee convened for the first time in 2009.

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Research Agenda Areas
  • Quality/Cost/Disparities: Management research to provide operational advice on improving quality, reducing costs, and eliminating disparities.
     
  • Care Coordination: Management and policy research to identify best practices in care coordination and evaluation of effective care coordination practices.

  • Payment Reform: Policy research to develop, test, and evaluate new models of payment reform.

  • Leadership/Governance: Management research to support leadership and governance in improvement.

  • Translational Research: Identifying and executing strategies and methods to disseminate and implement research findings, knowledge, tools, and best practices.

  • Quantitative Research: Analysis of secondary data associated with health care performance across multiple dimensions. 


Top Research Questions
  1. What are the most effective and efficient ways for hospitals and health systems to integrate care and improve performance (financial, clinical, service, patient and staff experience) along the continuum of care (e.g., implementing care coordination across all settings of care)? Learn more.

  2. What organizational characteristics, structures, and processes lead to a high-performing system of care (e.g., the implementation of specific HIT components, specific horizontal and vertically integrated system practices, and clinical and functional integration across a health system that produce benchmark outcomes)? Learn more.

  3. What are the most promising practices and system design elements for reducing health disparities, considering all factors such as organizational elements and social determinants? Learn more.

  4. What is the role of the hospital in a new community environment that provides more efficient and effective health care (e.g., what are the redesigned structures and models, the role and implementation of accountable care organizations, the structures and processes needed to implement new payment models such as bundled payments, and how do organizations transition to this new role)? Learn more.

To answer these research questions, the research may be conducted by HRET, other parts of AHA or outside of AHA through partnerships with other organizations.  Additionally, the research may involve new research or a synthesis of available research.

 

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