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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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August 2010

PIPC Chairman sends letter to HHS on how to best build CER database

Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 14:12 | Posted in:

Partnership to Improve Patient Care Chairman Tony Coelho recently sent a letter to Sherry Glied, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recommending that the Agency work closely with the Patient Centered Outcomes and Research Institute when building its planned nationwide CER database.

PIPC HHS CER Inventory Comments

August 9, 2010

Sherry A. Glied
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: CER Inventory
Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 447-D
200 Independence Avenue, SW.
Washington, DC 20201

VIA Electronic Transmission

Dear Dr. Glied,

PIPC Urges HHS to Work in Conjunction with Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to Develop CER Database

WASHINGTON – This week, Tony Coelho, chairman of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) sent a letter to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sherry Glied, urging the agency to work in close coordination with the new Patient-Center Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) as it considers developing an inventory of compar

IOM priorities for CER: Did our input matter?

Submitted by Tony Coelho on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 15:21 | Posted in:

 

Dr. Harold Sox, co-chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee that developed CER priority recommendations for HHS last year, has a new article providing a CER progress report in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine.