AAMSE Trends Identification Survey

What are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the U.S. Healthcare system?

Please complete the following survey to assist AAMSE's Trends Task Force with identifying the issues that will most affect you, your medical society, and the physicians you serve in the next few years. Responses to this survey will be aggregated to determine the topics covered in the 2015 Trends Report, scheduled for release later this year.

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* 1. Provide the following information:

Name:

Title:

Organization:

Email Address:

Number of active members in your organization:

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* 2. Which of the following best describes your organization?

County medical society

State medical society

State specialty medical society

National medical society

National specialty medical society

Other

Other (please specify):

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* 3. Are the county and state medical societies in your state unified or disunified?

Unified

Disunified

Not applicable

In this section, we ask that you rank topics covered in the 2012 Trends Report you feel are just as or more important today.

For reference, the topics covered in the 2012 report were:

Medical Society Management: A broad review of topics affecting medical societies and physicians including healthcare reform, technology, CME, and competition from outside entities.

Quality of Care and Patient Safety: How medical societies prepare physicians to address issues related to patient care including increased focus on access to healthcare, quality of care, costs, and patient safety.

Delivery Model Changes: A look at the effect changes in healthcare delivery models have on the medical industry, such as Accountable Care Organizations, Patient Centered Medical Homes, and the increase of physicians employed by hospitals and health systems.

Changing Roles of Non-Physician Providers: A review of physician workforce shortage issues and the increasing role non-physician providers (such as mid-level practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) play in the healthcare system.

Innovation Within Payment Systems: Helping physicians address changes in payment systems from pay-for-performance and gain sharing, to bundling and shared savings models.

Membership as a Value Proposition: The issue of identifying and increasing the value proposition of membership in medical societies and effectively promoting this value to physicians.

Adjusting to the New Communications Landscape: A review of the changing communications landscape and how medical societies adapt to new technologies and media to keep communications relevant and effective.

For more information on these topics, download the 2012 Trends Report at aamse.org/Trends.

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* 4. Please rank the following trends that were covered in the 2012 Trends Report in relevance/importance to you and your medical society (1 = most relevant/important; 7 = least relevant/important).

Medical Society Management

N/A

Quality of Care and Patient Safety

N/A

Delivery Model Changes

N/A

Changing Roles of Non-Physician Providers

N/A

Innovation Within Payment Systems

N/A

Membership as a Value Proposition

N/A

Adjusting to the New Communications Landscape

N/A

In this section, provide other emerging trends you believe will affect physicians and medical societies in the near future.

You may identify trends not covered in the 2012 report or trends that fall within the 2012 topics but are more specific.

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* 5. What will be the single most important issue for you, in your role as a medical society professional, in the next two (2) to three (3) years?

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* 6. Looking further into the future, what strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats do you believe will affect physicians in the next three (3) to five (5) years?

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

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* 7. Again looking further into the future, what strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats do you believe will affect medical societies in the next three (3) to five (5) years?

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

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* 8. What could your medical society do to position itself as a leader in the U.S. Healthcare System in the next five (5) to ten (10) years?

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* 9. Please rank the following issues in relevance/importance to you and your medical society (1 = most relevant/important; 8 = least relevant/important)

Role of advocacy in medical societies' value proposition

N/A

Recruiting and serving employed physicians

N/A

Non-dues revenue

N/A

Health Information Technology (HIT) issues

N/A

ICD-10 implementation

N/A

Duplication of services and benefits among medical societies (differentiating value, working together)

N/A

Recruiting and engaging early career physicians

N/A

Responding to changing Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements

N/A

Finally, AAMSE will be offering a session at the 2014 Annual Conference relating to the Trends Report initiative.

The session, "How to Use the AAMSE Trends Report to Better Serve Your Members", will be held on Friday, August 1 from 9:45-10:45 a.m. during the conference in Louisville, KY.

The planned format for the session is a roundtable discussion that will include updates on the 2012 Trends Report as well as case studies of medical societies that used the report for strategic planning and other initiatives within their organizations.

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* 10. If you used the AAMSE Trends Report within your medical society, would you be willing to share your case study as part of the Trends session at this year's AAMSE Annual Conference?

Yes

Not applicable

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