Innovation's Vital Role in Healthcare

The Boston Globe
April 21, 2009

Now that federal policymakers have been charged with designing the new comparative effectiveness research program to compare healthcare interventions and determine what works best, they must do so while recognizing that healthcare cannot work without innovation....

....It is critical that new comparative studies avoid having a chilling effect on innovation. The comparative effectiveness research program must be designed in a way that identifies interventions that best meet patient needs.

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