CER can be Part of Health IT Push: Policy Group

Modern Healthcare
September 2, 2010

Policymakers charged with disseminating comparative-effectiveness research will need to proceed carefully and strategically to overcome obstacles such as a lack of standardized methodology and public perceptions of CER.

Those were among the findings of a recently released issue brief from the New England Healthcare Institute...The brief's authors recommended several strategies for effective CER dissemination, including the integration of CER into the current push for expanded use of health information technology...

"CER dissemination policy should take full advantage of other trends in healthcare improvement, most particularly the deployment of healthcare information technology," the authors said in the brief. "In the end, thoughtful and comprehensive dissemination policy will not only support the use of CER but should go far to improve the utilization of all forms of scientific evidence in the healthcare system."

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