NEHI Offers Ideas on Comparative Effectiveness

Modern Healthcare
April 20, 2009

The New England Healthcare Institute, a quality-research and policy group based in Cambridge, Mass., has issued a set of recommendations that it urges the Institute of Medicine to include in its forthcoming guidance to Congress on developing a national comparative-effectiveness research program.

The recommendations, included in the white paper "Balancing Act: Comparative Effectiveness Research and Innovation in U.S. Health Care," would help design a national comparative-effectiveness program that identifies the best clinical interventions while not discouraging innovation, said NEHI President Wendy Everett. “Policymakers should make supporting innovation—which is critical to medical advancements that improve quality of life for patients everywhere—an explicit goal of” comparative-effectiveness research, she said.

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