Partnership to Improve Patient Care

Who we are:

The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) is a diverse group of healthcare organization representing patients, physicians and other health care providers, researchers and innovators, and other groups that have come together to promote comparative effectiveness research that supports patient access and informed health care decision-making and fosters continued medical progress. PIPC is lead by a Steering Committee of twelve groups that represent the partnership's diverse members. The PIPC member list and steering committee reflect a wide range of support within the health care community.

What we do:

PIPC is dedicated to supporting comparative effectiveness research that strengthens physician and patient decision making, improves health care quality, and supports continued medical progress.

To make that happen, we aim to raise awareness:

• About the value of well-designed comparative effectiveness research (CER).
• About the need to ensure that proposals to expand the government's role in CER are centered on patient needs.
• About the important role of continued medical innovation as part of the solution to cost and quality challenges in health.