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So Much For Comparative Effectiveness

By MERRILL GOOZNER The Obama administration's commitment to cost control in health care can now be summed up in four words: Not on our watch. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told American women this week that they have...
November 20, 2009 in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Merrill Goozner | Permalink | Comments (56)

Senate Healthcare Bill Amendment Allocates Your Tax Dollars To Quacks

By DR. VAL With healthcare costs spiraling out of control, and major rationing efforts under consideration - can we really afford to allow purveyors of pseudoscience to use up scarce Medicare/Medicaid resources? It’s hard to imagine that Obama’s administration would...
August 4, 2009 in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Senate | Permalink | Comments (21)

Explaining Runaway Costs: The Lobster or the Salad?

By BOB WACHTER Have you found yourself ‘splaining to friends and family why the healthcare system is so damn expensive? I’ve been teaching health policy for a couple of decades, and I’m surprised that my two favorite stories haven’t yet...
July 28, 2009 in Bob Wachter, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Consumers, Costs | Permalink | Comments (52)

The Case for Comparative Effectiveness Research

By RAHUL PARIKH MD When I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, there was this local TV show my dad used to enjoy watching called Fight Back with David Horowitz. Basically, Horowitz, a TV reporter and consumer advocate,...
July 13, 2009 in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Costs, JAMA, Rahul Parikh | Permalink | Comments (6)

Creative thinking about the CER agenda

By JOSHUA SEIDMAN This week the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its list of the top 100 topics that should be addressed in comparative effectiveness research (CER) now — thanks to $1.1 billion in the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act...
July 3, 2009 in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Information Therapy, IOM | Permalink | Comments (5)

CER Council requests public comment

The Federal Comparative Effectiveness Research Coordination Council has posted its draft definition of comparative effectiveness research and the draft criteria for research prioritization at http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/cer/draftdefinition.html for public review and comment.
May 31, 2009 in Announcements, Comparative Effectiveness Research | Permalink | Comments (6)