AHA Committee on Research (COR)

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.

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.