Health Forum, Inc.

Health Forum, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, is a health care data and analytics service provider that supplies hospital survey databases and operational data subscriptions to federal agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders, with no subcontractor activity. Health Forum operates on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis across all recent awards, with firm-fixed-price purchase-order contracts ranging from $11 thousand to $664 thousand.

Health Forum's federal footprint centers on hospital survey data and health information technology adoption tracking. The vendor delivers the American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospital Data — covering approximately 3,500 hospitals with financial, utilization, and technology-integration metrics — to civilian health and consumer-safety agencies. Representative work includes a $664 thousand Option Period 4 exercise from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration for tracking health IT adoption and use among U.S. hospitals (period of performance running through September 2026), a $39.8 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for Annual Survey Database files covering 2021–2024 plus IT supplement (awarded February 2026, delivery completed March 2026), and recurring annual subscriptions to the Consumer Product Safety Commission at $11–13 thousand per award for hospital frame data supporting the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.

Customer concentration splits across two patterns. The Consumer Product Safety Commission leads by award count (11 awards, $108 thousand combined potential value), while the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration dominates by potential value (5 awards, $728 thousand). Together with the Federal Trade Commission, the Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center, and the Army Recruiting Command, these five customers account for 83% of recent awards and 94% of combined potential value. Awards trend flat — one award per year across 2021, 2022, 2025, and 2026, with two in 2023 — and are micro-contracts below $700 thousand, with one award ($664 thousand on the health IT tracking contract) reaching completion in the next twenty-four months and facing recompete.

Service Contract Inventory captures $261 thousand in prime-contract invoicing across three records spanning FY2023–FY2024, with SCI-reported government-paid rates ranging from a 10th percentile of $261.22 per hour to a 90th percentile of $1,870.86 per hour (median $1,066.04 per hour). SCI records show minimal FTE deployment — 1.0 FTE in FY2023, none reported in FY2024 — reflecting the vendor's reliance on data licensing and subscription delivery rather than on-site professional services. Health Forum does not subcontract; all 30 awards in the source are prime contracts, and sub-hours share across SCI-reportable primes is zero. The vendor's NAICS footprint aligns with its data-publishing role: 13 awards under Book Publishers (NAICS 511110), 7 under Business Associations (813910), and 5 under Internet Publishing and Broadcasting (519130).

American Hospital Association is Health Forum's parent entity — a tax-exempt nonprofit trade association headquartered at the same Chicago address. The relationship positions Health Forum as the AHA's commercial data-distribution arm, selling standardized hospital survey data compiled by the parent association to federal agencies for research, market monitoring, and regulatory compliance.