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• Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 158
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US – December 01, 2009 — RemedyMD , the leading provider of disease registry software, today announced the first nationwide cervical ...
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• Orszag On Health Reform At Health Affairs Breakfast

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 592
  At a Health Affairs reporters breakfast this morning, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag defended the ability of the health reform bill being debated in the Senate to “ bend the cost curve ” of health care costs. “The bill that is currently on the Senate floor contains more ...
  20 hours ago

• Beware the CER Trojan Horse in Senate Reform Bill

  
  Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma — Authority: 464
  Im a bit late picking up on this important Perspective in the New England Journal : http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0910747?resourcetype=HWCIT The co-author is long-time Pharma watcher Alastair J.J. Wood whom many think ought to have been FDA commissioner, if the drug industry did not traditionally ...
  2 days ago

• Comparative Effectiveness Of Minimally Invasive Vs Open Radical Prostatectomy

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Editor’s Choice Main Category: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology ; Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 29 Nov 20094:00 PST UroToday.comMinimally invasive radical prostatectomy for prostate [...]
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• Comprehensive Obesity Registry , A First for Bariatric Research

  
  Press About — Authority: 163
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY – November 19, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of Disease Registry Softwares, today announced the first nationwide Comprehensive Obesity ...
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• What’s Best for Our Breasts?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 421
  OK, I’m jumping into this controversy about screening for breast cancer (mammograms, self exams, and the under- versus over-50 issue) a week late, but not because I haven’t been following the stories.  It’s kind of hard to know how to talk about one’s breasts when one has the perspectives of both an economist ...
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• No Free Speech for Comparative Effectiveness Researchers?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 537
  We have repeatedly argued why comparative effectiveness research, under ideal circumstances, would be a good idea.  As I said before : Physicians spend a lot of time trying to figure out the best treatments for particular patients problems. Doing so is often hard. In many situations, there are many plausible ...
  1 week ago

• Stop Targeting Women

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 126
  The following post represents my personal opinion and not that of any groups or organizations with which I am affiliated. Okay, it’s enough already! Why is it that women are always the target? First it’s abortions, then mammograms, pap smears following closely, behind and now cosmetic surgery (although that’s ...
  1 week ago

• Comparative effectiveness looks like a real game-changer

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Theres a reason why we picked Dr. Carolyn Clancy among our "Fierce Women to Watch in Health IT" two weeks ago. The director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is a key figure in the federal comparative-effectiveness research program thats getting a $1.1 billion funding increase from the American ...
  1 week ago

• Top technology trends for payers

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Health insurers will be keeping close watch on genetic testing and electronic medical records in 2010, according to the first of a planned annual series of reports from research organization ECRI Institute. Rounding out the top seven technology trends that payers should pay attention to in the new year are: Premium CT ...
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• Comparative Effectiveness: More About Cost or Care?

  
  DeviceTalk — Authority: 128
  The issue of one size doesn’t fit all, how this relates to the treatment of patients, and where comparative effectiveness fits in was debated yesterday by panelists during a media event held by Cook Medical in New York City. “There are many who believe in the promise that comparative effectiveness takes us to this ...
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• So Much For Comparative Effectiveness

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 605
  By MERRILL GOOZNER The Obama administrations commitment to cost control in health care can now be summed up in four words: Not on our watch. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told American women this week that they have...
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• The Battle Over Rewarding Efficient Providers

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 592
  Editor’s Note: In the post below, John Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee discuss the controversy over a proposed study of regional variations in Medicare spending. Wennberg and Brownlee rebut claims that spending and utilization variations among academic medical centers are due to differences in patient income, race, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Renal Replacement Therapies Registry – A First for Kidney Disease Research

  
  Press About — Authority: 163
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US – November 14, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of Disease Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide renal replacement ...
  2 weeks ago

• Renal Replacement Therapies Registry – A First for Kidney Disease Research

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 158
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US – November 14, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of Disease Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide renal replacement ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Grind: Voters Want Green... In Their Wallets

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 446
  Voters Want Green… In Their Wallets More from the fallout elections of 2009. How "Comparative Effectiveness" Can Cost You Your Life The phrase "Comparative Effectiveness" is becoming increasingly in vogue among Obama health care advocates. The Overnights from NetRight Nation This week Executive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reading the Fine Print of Government-Run Comparative Effectiveness Research

  
  Dr. Wes — Authority: 531
  This week, the New England Journal of Medicine published the comparative effectiveness research trial "ROOBY" comparing conventional cardiac bypass surgery to off-pump bypass surgery. The study was conducted at VA medical centers and randomly enrolled 2203 patients between conventional bypass and off-pump bypass ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lower Back Pain Registry Provides Research Milestone

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 158
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY, US – November 05, 2009 — RemedyMD , the leading provider of Disease Registry Software, today announced the first nationwide lower back pain ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comprehensive Health Care Reform Not Very Comprehensive

  
  The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog — Authority: 411
  Once upon a time it looked like Congress and the White House would deliver meaningful, comprehensive health care reform to the American people. They certainly started down that path. The talk was of “bending the cost curve.” And of tackling issues like medical malpractice. There was even promises being made of ...
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• Harry Reid’s Health Care Reform Dilemma: The Myth of the 60th Democratic Senator

  
  The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog — Authority: 411
  If asked even two weeks ago I’d have said there was an 80 percent change or greater that meaningful health care reform would be signed into law this year. Now, however, I think the chances of such an outcome are far lower – still substantial – but much less likely. One reason meaningful health care reform may ...
  4 weeks ago

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