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Value Initiative Issue Brief 4: How Rural Hospitals Improve Value and Affordability
Rural hospitals are a crucial local access point for urgent medical services, primary care and prevention in their communities.
Value Initiative Issue Brief 3: Connecting the Dots: Value and Health Equity
How are value and health equity connected? The best way to examine the connection between health equity and value is to start by understanding health equity.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief 1: Framing the Issue of Affordable Health Care
AHA’s Issue briefs frame the issue of affordability and can be used by hospitals and health systems to initiate conversations with stakeholders in their communities. Areas of focus include examination of the cost drivers in the system and debunking the “myths” of what are driving health care costs today.
Trendwatch Issue Brief 4: Advanced Use of Health Information Technology to Support New Models of Care
This brief is the fourth in a series of issue briefs highlighting data from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016 – April 2017. This fourth brief compares the use of health IT by hospitals and health systems that are participating in new models of care with those that are not. Hospitals and health systems are considered to be participating in new models of care if they reported having at least one of the following: an accountable care organization, a medical home program, or participation in a bundled payment program. In the 2016/2017 survey, 41 percent of responding hospitals reported that they participated in new models of care, up from 19 percent of respondents in 2012.
Overview: The Rural Emergency Medical Center Act of 2018
The American Hospital Association’s Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities issued a report in 2016, recommending Congress establish new models of care to provide communities options to protect and stabilize access to health care services. The Rural Emergency Medical Center (REMC) Act of 2018 would create a new designation under the Medicare program allowing hospitals meeting certain criteria to transition to a 24/7 emergency medical center with enhanced reimbursement and transportation to higher acuity facilities, as needed.