The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (CER). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Patient-Centered ...

A research data repository that combines millions of de-identified claims and electronic medical records would allow healthcare organizations to conduct evidence-based research on the effectiveness of ...

Comparative effectiveness research has been the target of recurrent criticism in some political circles, with opponents claiming it’s the “gateway to rationing” or it encourages “cookbook medicine.” ...

Understanding the clinical nuances of when and to whom services render the greatest benefit requires more research. The type of research that addresses this issue is commonly labeled comparative ...

Five Republican Senators have reintroduced a bill to bar the federal government from undertaking comparative effectiveness research, according to a release by Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). The 2009 ...

Few of us could have predicted (or were ready for) the firestorm of opposition that provisions in the stimulus bill related to electronic health information or comparative effectiveness research ...

With all the chatter and perhaps now "twitter" about healthcare reform, one area has gotten a lot of attention and it is an issue that is near and dear to the Society for Women’s Health Research - ...

Issue brief from Ellen-Marie Whelan and Sonia Sekhar explains how comparative effectiveness research will help deliver better health care. When consumers shop for most products in America, we have the ...

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Comparative effectiveness research, a proposed method to cut health care spending, is sharply criticized in a new report identifying numerous negative ramifications of the policy. The report, “Shorter ...

Ellen-Marie Whelan discusses why we need evidence-based health care, how it will improve health, and how we can promote it. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are independent, ...