Featured blog post: Healthcare reform and comparative effectiveness research
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, March 17, 2009
The recent Stimulus Package includes $1.1 billion for “comparative effectiveness research.” Seven-hundred million dollars will go to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research related to public health.
An additional $400 million will go to the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for conducting research that “compares the clinical outcomes, effectiveness, and appropriateness of items, services, and procedures.” In addition, HHS will be charged with the development of “clinical registries, clinical data networks, and other forms of electronic health data that can be used to generate or obtain outcomes data.” HHS will also create a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which will be charged with “reducing duplicative efforts and encouraging coordinated and complementary use of resources…” Read more of this blog post by Kirk Mathews, MBA, of Inpatient Management, Inc. on HospitalistLeadership.com.
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