Partnership to Improve Patient Care

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.

HHS has recently been seeking proposals on how to best build the database which will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

In his letter Mr. Coelho wrote that working with PCORI to manage of new program of patient centered CER “will ensure that the inventory is properly structured to meet the needs of the Institute and, more importantly, the patients and providers that it will be serving through development and support of a large-scale program for CER research and dissemination.”