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Putting Evidence into Action: The Essential Component of Health Care Reform
Thursday, December 9, 2010
As health care reform unfolds, science will need to answer many questions about how to get comparative effectiveness research (CER) into use at the point of care. A new issue brief from Mathematica’s Center on Health Care Effectiveness, "Using Comparative Effectiveness Research: Information Alone Won’t Lead to Successful Health Care Reform," addresses significant challenges in realizing the potential of CER. These challenges include coordinating the many existing efforts that are under way; improving the research infrastructure and defining appropriate CER research methodology; involving the full range of health care decision makers, including consumers; and recognizing that information alone will not change health care. Once completed, the research must be disseminated and implemented to change health care practice and improve outcomes.
Roundtable Discussants
Eugene Rich, M.D., Director, Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica Policy Research
Dominick Esposito, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Assistant Director, Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica Policy Research
Timothy Lake, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research
Ann Bonham, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges
Hoangmai H. Pham, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Adviser, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services