Health Care Trends Report: An Environmental Analysis
Welcome to Health Care Trends. Produced by the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Long Range Planning and Development (CLRPD), and drawn from an extensive review of professional, governmental, and nongovernmental sources, this resource provides valuable information on the trends shaping medicine today. Health Care Trends is a resource with data on major issues and trends in medicine that are affecting physicians, other providers, and patients. The Trends report provides a brief overview of an issue, identifies trends, and posits likely implications for patients and physicians.
Various chapters of the 2010-2011 edition will be released over time to ensure that timely, relevant updated information is available for current reporting and monitoring of trends. The initial chapters of the 2010-11 Health Care Trends are now posted on the CLRPD webpage and ensuing chapters will be posted throughout the year.
Health Economics provides information on health care spending trends; adoption rate of electronic health records (EHRs); projected impact of ACA; details of employer-based and public benefit plans; characteristics of un- and under-insured; managed care organizations; physician profiling; and physician income.
Public Health Infrastructure addresses infectious diseases; acquired infections; chronic disease; disaster preparedness; public health workforce; and the integration of medicine and public health.
Health Inequities shares information on health outcomes for vulnerable populations; access to care issues; quality of care; social determinants of health; and the economic impact of health inequities.
Patient Expectations and Perceptions presents information on Americans’ perceptions of the quality of their health care, the U.S. health care system, and health policy; patient utilization of health information; patient experiences in accessing care; and the patient-physician relationship.
Globalization offers information on health care in developed and developing countries; medical work force; infectious and non-communicable diseases; maternal and child health; burden of disease from social and environmental determinants; medical travel/tourism; and climate change.
Science and Technology in Medicine addresses health information technology (health IT); electronic medical records; computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems; barriers to health IT adoption; changing technology and medical practice; telehealth; personal health records; personalized medicine; patient access to health information; and impact of health IT on vulnerable populations.
NEW!! Health Care Resources provides information on physician shortages, physician practice settings and models of care, physician career satisfaction, scope of practice, and hospitals and health care facilities.
NEW!! A new product from CLRPD, Health Care Trends Fact Sheets, presents information from the Health Care Trends chapters in a condensed format. Fact sheets on “Science and Technology in Medicine” and “Health Care Resources” are now available.
Please feel free to register and download the current chapters of the 2010-2011 Health Care Trends Report. After you review the available chapters, you are invited to share your feedback by taking a short survey (it will only take five minutes to complete). There are no printed copies available for distribution.
An archive copy of the complete Health Care Trends 2008 is available.
