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September 3, 2010 |

Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho was quoted in an Inside Health Policy article this week discussing his concerns on the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) plans to build a CER inventory before the creation of the Patient Centered Outcomes and Research Institute, an independent board that will facilitate CER research.

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Tony Coelho discusses patient centered CER in CQ
September 3, 2010 |

The latest addition of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) features an article on comparative effectiveness research (CER) in which Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho weighs in on the issue.

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PIPC Chairman sends letter to HHS on how to best build CER database
August 16, 2010 |

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.

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

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 18:51 | Posted in:

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.

Tony Coelho's recent speech on patient centered CER

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 20:51 | Posted in:

Below: PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho's recent speech on patient centered CER. The speech was delivered on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at the Alliance for Specialty Medicine's “Capitol Hill Advocacy Conference,” in Washington, D.C.

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