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Draft guidance favors ‘targeted' safety-data collection by drug developers
By Jaimy Lee | February 12, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance addressing the amounts and types of safety data that companies developing drug and biological products should collect in late-stage, pre-market and post-market clinical investigations.
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‘Time is of the essence' | PCORI moves to implement comparative effectiveness research, funding
By Maureen McKinney | January 28, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The not-for-profit organization tasked by the healthcare reform law with promoting comparative effectiveness research has spent the 16 months since its inception in the planning stages, building infrastructure and seeking feedback from clinicians and patients.
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New fee coming for medical effectiveness research
By Associated Press | December 27, 2011
Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best.
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Andis Robeznieks Physician News Blog
Washington would say quality has definitely improved
December 14, 2011
Too bad for the father of our country that 212 years ago the fields of patient safety, healthcare quality improvement and comparative effectiveness weren't very advanced—or even in existence.
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PCORI sees rush of grant applicants
By Maureen McKinney | December 05, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
More than 850 applicants are vying for a chance to win grant funding for comparative-effectiveness research, according to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
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Risk reduction | Efforts to reduce radiation exposure increase as awareness grows
By Jaimy Lee | November 28, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Several years ago, a physician at Scripps Health launched a pilot program that used a patient's body mass index to measure dose for a computed tomography scan.
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Less is more | CDC tracking system takes aim at antibiotic use
By Maureen McKinney | November 21, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
When it comes to antibiotics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging providers to take a less-is-more approach.
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PCORI gets down to work
By Maureen McKinney | October 31, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The organization tasked by the government with determining which treatments and procedures work best for which patients has begun to make headway in the year since its inception.
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Ailing health system | Report slams U.S. effort, notes gains
By Maureen McKinney | October 24, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The U.S. healthcare system is doing a dismal job delivering affordable, accessible and efficient care, the Commonwealth Fund concludes in a new report.
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Taking hybrid ORs to heart | New facilities bring marriage of diagnostic imaging and cardiac surgery
By Andis Robeznieks | October 17, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Dr. John Byrne, chairman of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Cardiac Surgery, says he remembers the date April 4, 2005, as if it were the birthday of one of his children.
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Full of potential | List highlights healthcare innovations for 2012
By Jaimy Lee | October 17, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Devices and therapies that treat chronic diseases and medical apps for smartphones are among medical innovations that will profoundly affect healthcare in 2012, according to a list compiled by physicians and scientists at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Beal named COO at PCORI
By Joseph Conn | October 17, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Dr. Anne Beal has been named chief operating officer for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a Washington-based not-for-profit research organization created by Congress under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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PCORI announces $26 million in grants
By Ashok Selvam and Christine LaFave Grace | September 28, 2011
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is offering groups the chance to play a role in setting its national agenda and apply for a share of as much as $26 million in research-related grants.
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Data scan | With access to a newly available trove of private insurers' claims data, new institute aims to study what's driving spiraling healthcare costs
By Melanie Evans | September 26, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
As Congress grapples with a tight deadline to curb healthcare-fueled deficits, a group of prominent economists and health policy experts last week launched an effort to more closely examine a larger, less transparent segment of the industry's costs: the privately insured.
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HHS seeks input on database for comparative-effectiveness research
By Joseph Conn | September 25, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
HHS has published a formal notice and opened a 60-day public-comment period on a proposal to create a database of healthcare claims information for comparative-effectiveness research.
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Auditors find $1.1 billion cost difference in eye treatments
By Joe Carlson | September 07, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS allows doctors to prescribe Medicare patients two different drugs for age-related macular degeneration, one of which costs an average of $54 per dose and the other costs $2,030. Yet 43% of CMS' prescriptions in 2008 and 2009 were for the more-expensive drug—a preference that cost an...
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Survey finds more hospitals offering complementary, alternative medicine
By Ashok Selvam | September 07, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The utilization of complementary and alternative medicine by U.S. hospitals has increased, according to a new AHA study (PDF).
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Cornering comparative effectiveness
By Washington Post | August 17, 2011
American medical care is rife with treatments whose usefulness is uncertain not just to the doctors who deliver them but also to the patients who receive them.
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NYU's Langone gets $84 million for comparative-effectiveness heart study
By Andis Robeznieks | August 01, 2011
NYU Langone Medical Center, a three-campus, 789-bed institution in New York, has received an $84 million National Institutes of Health grant to conduct a comparative-effectiveness study to investigate when angioplasty...
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The future of healthcare: Finance | In pursuit of value: Financial strategies need to include greater transparency on cost, quality
By Nancy Kane | July 25, 2011
A comprehensive analysis of 2007-09 healthcare spending growth recently released by the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and
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Board needs more primary-care members
September 27, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
After a review of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute board members and their positions, I am wondering if anyone else is concerned that there is no representation for pure primary care.
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