Publications

The Flex Monitoring Team completes projects each year in a variety of topic areas such as CAH financial and operational improvement, patient safety, quality of care, Emergency Medical Services, and social determinants of health. These publications aim to evaluate the Flex Program and disseminate information to State Flex Programs, CAHs, and the general public. Our publications offer a wide range of information about Flex Program activities, best practices in CAHs, financial, quality, and community measures, and hospital services. Below is a list of publications from the Flex Monitoring Team. Publications are listed chronologically, in descending order. You can search by title and filter by topics and state. For data reports and publications relevant to specific states, please visit our State Profiles.

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Madeleine Pick, Megan Lahr, Abigail Wenninger, Dori Cross, Ben Weideman
Most Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) utilize at least a basic Electronic Health Record (EHR), but continue to lag in some of the more advanced EHR…
Madeleine Pick, Alyssa Furukawa, Megan Lahr, Dori Cross
While nearly all U.S. hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), now utilize Electronic Health Records (EHRs), concerns remain that CAHs…
Peiyin Hung, Michelle Casey
This policy brief has three purposes: 1) to describe current Critical Access Hospital (CAH) participation in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive…
Jeffrey McCullough, Michelle Casey
This report assesses the availability of health information technology applications that are preconditions for meaningful use in CAHs, compared to…
John Gale, Jennifer Lenardson, Melanie Race, Walter Gregg, Michelle Casey, Indira Richardson, Stephen Rutledge
To document effective state initiatives using Flex Grant Program funds, Flex Coordinators in all 45 participating states were asked to identify and…
Michelle Casey, Jill Klingner, Walter Gregg
Both the public and private sectors have focused considerable attention on health information technology (HIT) as a potential means of improving the…