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An NIH study of treatments for high blood pressure, called the ALLHAT trial, shows some of the strengths and limitations of comparative effectiveness research to improve patient care. More...

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Tony Coelho Discusses Patient Care with Former HHS Secretary
February 3, 2012 |

On Tuesday night, PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho joined former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson at the University of Charleston in West Virginia for a speaker series titled "Who Decides Patient Treatments" to discuss the future of health care in the United States.

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PCORI Releases their Draft Priorities
January 30, 2012 |

PCORI released a draft of their National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda for public comment. The PCORI Board, which is responsible for funding research, is asking for a 55 day public comment period to discuss and solicit feedback from patients, caregivers, professionals, and the general public on the research priorities.

In the draft, PCORI prioritized five broad research areas:

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Differentiating Patients, Consumers, and Patient Advocacy Organizations
October 18, 2011 |

When conducting Comparative Effectiveness Research it is crucial to understand the differences between the players involved in the process. In his remarks at the  2nd Annual Forum on Achieving Patient centeredness , Marc Boutin, executive vice president and COO at the National Health Council, discussed the important differences between the three major players in the process: the patient, the consumer, and the patient advocacy organization. He stated that many times when the patient is discussed they are not defined.

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Senator Baucus and other key figures discuss need for patient centeredness in CER at PIPC Forum

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Speaking at the Partnership to Improve Patient Care's (PIPC) forum on CER July 22, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) highlighted the promise of the health reform law in delivering patient-centered CER and pledged "diligent oversight" to ensure it fulfills this promise in implementation.

Don Berwick: Let's Keep our Eyes Wide Open

Submitted by Tony Coelho on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 18:32

We've all read the quotes about how the new CMS Administrator Don Berwick thinks we should  "ration with our eyes open" and is romantic about the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE. But, agree or disagree with the way he was appointed, there’s another side to Berwick worth looking at. It is a side that is zealously devoted to putting the patient at the center of health care. Dr.

PIPC Forum Tony Coelho Remarks Delivering on Patient-Centered CER

Thank you all for joining us here in our discussion on delivering patient-centered comparative effectiveness research in the United States.

I’m Tony Coelho, the chairman of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care.

PIPC is a coalition made up of more than 40 members representing patients, providers, people with disabilities, minority health advocates, researchers, innovators and other stakeholder groups.

Together we have worked – over the past 18 months – to support enactment of comparative effectiveness research that is centered on patients’ and providers’ needs.

Delivering on Patient-Centered CER Forum Speeches

PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho

Senator Max Baucus

* Marc Boutin, Executive Vice President and COO of the National Health Council

Photos from the Delivering on Patient-Centered CER Forum

The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) recently held a forum in which representatives from the medical and patient advocacy communities joined PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho and Senator Max Baucus in a discussion on delivering patient centered comparative effectiveness research.

PIPC Hosts Forum on CER

CER Forum Materials

Senator Baucus joins PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho and other key figures for a discussion on how to ensure that CER stays patient focused

The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) recently held a

Remarks by Senator Max Baucus at PIPC CER Forum

Thank you, Tony, for that kind introduction.  I am pleased to be here today to talk about patient-centered research in the new health reform law. 

And thank you, Tony, for bringing more than 40 patient groups together around the issue of comparative effectiveness research.  It’s only fitting that patients are at the center of the research we seek to foster in the new law.

Remarks by Senator Max Baucus at PIPC CER Forum

Thank you, Tony, for that kind introduction.  I am pleased to be here today to talk about patient-centered research in the new health reform law. 

And thank you, Tony, for bringing more than 40 patient groups together around the issue of comparative effectiveness research.  It’s only fitting that patients are at the center of the research we seek to foster in the new law.

PIPC forum on achieving patient-centered CER to be held July, 22

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