Partnership to Improve Patient Care

Recently the AARP announced its support of S. 1213, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act – the same Senate CER bill that we at PIPC support.

From the AARP letter to Sens. Baucus and Conrad:

“[S. 1213] would create an independent Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and provide increased, stable funding to maintain our investment in research comparing the effectiveness of various treatments for given conditions.”

Despite recent media accounts, PIPC is decidedly not an "anti-reform" group. We are pro-reform, and we were established to promote sound, patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER). PIPC's mission statement, adopted in 2008 when the Partnership was founded, states that PIPC is "dedicated to supporting CER that strengthens physician and patient decision making, improves health care quality, and supports continued medical progress." 

Recently, PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho participated in a radio interview on KDKA News Radio 1020 AM in Pittsburgh, PA, to talk about healthcare reform and specifically comparative effectiveness research (CER).

“I really agree that we need to reform healthcare,” Coelho said.  He then went on to discuss CER and the need to keep this research patient-centered. 

PIPC Chairman Tony Coehlo was recently on the David Boze radio show, which airs in Washington State, to talk about the importance of doing comparative effectiveness research (CER) right - as part of healthcare reform.   PIPC believes that that CER should be patient-centered.
 

As Newsweek points out today, there’s a lot of information out there on health care reform. When it comes to comparative effectiveness research (CER), they rightfully state that “supporters of this type of research say it can provide valuable information to doctors, improving care and also lowering cost.”