The Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance addressing the amounts and types of safety data that companies developing drug and biological products should collect in late-stage, pre-market and post-market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. FULL STORY »
By Maureen McKinney | January 28, 2012
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Maureen McKinney | December 05, 2011
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Maureen McKinney | October 31, 2011
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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. FULL STORY »
By Maureen McKinney | October 24, 2011
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The U.S. healthcare system is doing a dismal job delivering affordable, accessible and efficient care, the Commonwealth Fund concludes in a new report. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks | October 17, 2011
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans | September 26, 2011
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
