Will CER Really Make a Difference if the Public Doesn't Want It?

ICSI Health Care Blog
July 9, 2010

Yesterday I was lucky to be invited to a New England Healthcare Institute discussion entitled “From Evidence to Practice:  Making CER Findings Work for Providers and Patients” in Washington, DC.

How to disseminate and implement Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) so that patient care is really improved was the first topic tackled by the expert panel and the moderator, Clifford Goodman of The Lewin Group…

...It looks like the consolidation of health care providers, hospitals, health plans, pharma, and medical device companies will create a real need for aggregators that can make sure that the shared decision making tools are shared throughout American and not just in the islands of excellence like the Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Geisinger, and other leaders in the field.

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