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HRET Mission

Transforming health care through research and education.

HRET Vision

Leveraging research and education to create a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health.

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AHA Committee on Research (COR)

Resources

2009 Strategic Issues Forecasting Report

2010-2012 Top Research Questions

2010-2012 Top Research Questions Fact Sheets

AHA Research Work Plan

AHA Research Synthesis Report on Accountable Care Organizations

AHA Research Synthesis Report on Bundled Payment

HRET to Study Critical Health Delivery Issues in H&HN

The AHA Committee on Research (COR), which also serves as the HRET Board of Trustees, convened for the first time in 2009. The aim of the AHA Committee on Research is to recommend to the AHA Board the research agenda for the association for the next three years.

Through the development of the 2009 Strategic Issues Forecasting Report and input from the AHA Executive Management Team and the AHA Committee on Research, the AHA Committee on Research has identified the AHA Research Agenda Areas and Top Research Questions for the association for 2010 to 2012.

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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